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Originally posted by Alexmitter View Post
Long time Xfce user here, hated Gnome, its design, its CSD headerbars, its philosophy and its people and today I can not believe how stupid I was. I gave myself a challenge to try gnome for a few days in its Wayland session after I got my Radeon and I since have not looked back. Its that good. I never had seen a desktop that was so flexible and hack-able and that really hit a nerve.
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Originally posted by baryluk View PostWait. xscreensaver last release wasn't in 90s? Nice to see it alive and jwz updating it.
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Originally posted by rene View Post
OLEDs and some TFT (think Apple Retina image retention) do not burn in?
OLEDs not only burn in permanently with relative ease, they also wilt, specially the blue color, over time. After a couple of years, if it survives this long, the screen will look like a 20-year old CCFL LCD display.
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Originally posted by JPFSanders View Post
Great binary thinking there, truly a marvel of ones and zeroes, your reasoning: "because I do not like Gnome retarded decisions on ergonomic UI design and absurd paradigms of productivity" ergo: "I must want a replica of Windows95 as my desktop."
Please let me take off my hat to you.
Originally posted by JPFSanders View PostOh nothing there is nothing to fix in Gnome
Originally posted by JPFSanders View PostPerhaps we could be in a much better position, linux desktops (Ubuntu) were making strides 10 years ago into public acceptance when Gnome2 was the de-facto Linux desktop and all of that came to a halt with Gnome 3.x whose fallout still raining today poisoning everything it touches.
Can you prove that in any way? Let's check Linux market share history: GNOME 3 was released in 2011. According to statcounter Linux market share in 2010 was something around 0.8%. According to same stats it's was again 0.8% in 2020. It's basically the same at it was before GNOME 3 introduction. So how GNOME 3 would be responsible for Linux desktop market share? Also why others desktops weren't able to take GNOME position after GNOME 2 was abandoned? If GNOME 3 is so bad then it should be marginalized years ago by "better" desktops.
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JPFSanders Your rants are pretty funny. I have a question though.
MacOS is a pretty popular desktop and used by more people then every Linux Desktop combined. What is your opinion on MacOS?
Same question with Android?
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Originally posted by k1e0x View PostJPFSanders Your rants are pretty funny
Originally posted by k1e0x View Post[USER="103182"]
I have a question though. MacOS is a pretty popular desktop and used by more people then every Linux Desktop combined.
What is your opinion on MacOS?
The GUI on OS 8.1 wasn't bad, I don't remember anything I strongly disliked about it, however I do not have fond memories for the OS itself, the old 68k OS was garbagey and wasn't too stable, didn't like Macs then don't like Macs now.
I know Modern MacOS is from where Gnome gets its inspiration but I haven't used modern Mac OS for more than 5-10 mins to form a solid opinion. As a GUI interface thing I did not like that windows on the Mac don't maximise on double click and I'm not a fan of the keyboard command-control thing, nor the single-button mice. I know you can use a regular PC keyboard and a PC mouse, that summarises all my experience with modern MacOS.
Originally posted by k1e0x View Post[USER="103182"]
Same question with Android?
Android IMHO as a GUI is a mixed bag, some decisions range from strange to plain bad to just brilliant, there is a lot of inconsistencies here and there.
I hate the concept that anything can be a button but without an indication that is a button.
I can't comprehend for the life of me why most phones can't rotate the launcher screen, it is something I find baffling and incomprehensible.
Last thing I found immensely irritating was Google play moving the option menu from the burger menu (we agreed that the burger menu icon was where the menu go) into a small profile icon. The change is so idiotic, stupid and counter-intuitive that for days the google play application showed a blue bubble reminder telling me the options are now on something that doesn't resemble a button or a menu. Completely retarded interface decision, so intuitive and easy to discover you need to be told that a little picture is now a menu. They don't follow their own GUI rules.
However I think overall it does a good job with the small physical space that is available on a phone, I think iOS does a good job too and is generally more consistent than Android.
I do not think Android is an appropriate interface for a regular computer if that's what where you're getting to, it is even worse than Gnome3. The saving grace of Android is that it doesn't affect applications outside phones, Gnome sadly influences all sort of bad idea contagion effect on the Linux desktop application ecosystem due to their influence on the development of GTK.
I was born ages ago and I have witnessed the evolution of GUI interfaces from the beginning, I can tell you with confidence that touch screen GUI paradigms in a regular workstation are pure concentrated cancer, imagine you open a 42 US gallon (159L) and instead of OIL you find it full of cancer inside, that's what I think of touch interfaces on workstation computers.
You can disagree with me on anything and I'm OK with it.
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