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Use GNOME if you want a better touch experience
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TeamLinux01
•
7/4/24, 4:32 PM
True
V
Valerie
Use GNOME if you want a better touch experience
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:32 PM
Eh
, KDE touch is fine
?
K
Kamquat
Eh, KDE touch is fine?
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:32 PM
Not as good
H
Hex
•
7/4/24, 4:32 PM
gnome more like chrome of the DE space
H
Hex
gnome more like chrome of the DE space
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:32 PM
More like WebKit
M
matt_schwartz
•
7/4/24, 4:32 PM
also I would not trust them to pull all of the required deck stuff without valve holding their hand the entire way
J
jcnix
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
I really don
't like Gnome
, but I gotta say it works well for touch input on steam deck
V
Valerie
Not as good
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
two finger right click
, scrolling
, gestures
. etc all work
. What does gnome do otherwise
?
J
jcnix
I really don't like Gnome, but I gotta say it works well for touch input on stea...
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
Same here
C
Crono
More like WebKit
H
Hex
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
No
, I mean
, ram eater
.
H
Hex
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
there
's only discord open
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
Plasma is the very same as far as I can tell
K
Kamquat
two finger right click, scrolling, gestures. etc all work. What does gnome do ot...
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
It just
"feels
" better
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
I know that sounds stupid
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
but it just does
C
Crono
Plasma is the very same as far as I can tell
H
Hex
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
that
's why I like budgie
H
Hex
No, I mean, ram eater.
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
That
's kind of misleading
, a lot of RAM will be cached on Linux
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
Window resizing works better
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
they OSK works better
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
Free RAM
= Useless RAM
H
Hex
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
it by itself takes only around 800MB
H
Hex
that's why I like budgie
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:33 PM
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
J
jcnix
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
gnome has bigger touch targets i think
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
I guess if your screen is small yeah
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
GNOME is lower density overall
J
jcnix
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
why it kind of sucks on desktop
, because everything is gigantic
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
my touchscreens are 8
.8
" and 15
.6
" respectively
J
jcnix
why it kind of sucks on desktop, because everything is gigantic
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
I HATE GTK 4
!
!
!
!
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
I have zero issues
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
Except on the surface book it
's nice on there
J
jcnix
why it kind of sucks on desktop, because everything is gigantic
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:34 PM
Nah
, it makes things more immedieatly parseable
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
I hate GNOME purely for dconf
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
You know what you
're looking at the second you put your eyes on it
C
Crono
Nah, it makes things more immedieatly parseable
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
I need my file browser to be parsable once
. Past that
's point it
's what I call an
"inefficient use of space
"
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
Even if you have poor eyesight
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
if I wanted a windows registry to force itself on me for customization
, I
'd use windows
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
but noo
, GNOME had to go roll their own
S
Snowstorm Nightingale
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
ok
. Update is done
. THanks guys
.
K
Kamquat
Free RAM = Useless RAM
H
Hex
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
not really the case
K
Kamquat
if I wanted a windows registry to force itself on me for customization, I'd use ...
G
Geechan
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
Tbf it
's far better than the Windows registry lol
S
Snowstorm Nightingale
•
7/4/24, 4:35 PM
However
, I do not know what
's new
. Last update was 0624 Lol
.
G
Geechan
•
7/4/24, 4:36 PM
Dconf actually documents its settings
G
Geechan
Tbf it's far better than the Windows registry lol
K
Kamquat
•
7/4/24, 4:36 PM
Probably
, I haven
't run Windows in years
, I think Win7
. No idea how it is now
.
K
Kamquat
Probably, I haven't run Windows in years, I think Win7. No idea how it is now.
W
Wojciech Pawlik
•
7/4/24, 4:36 PM
Windows internals haven
't improved
.
W
Wojciech Pawlik
•
7/4/24, 4:37 PM
I
'd argue the shell has regresses since 7
.
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:37 PM
You can easily navigate GNOME with a keyboard on desktop
, and if you don
't have access to one it has those big touch targets
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:37 PM
Something something skill issue
V
Valerie
OP
•
7/4/24, 4:38 PM
People say KDE has too many settings
, I don
't get that
.
You can search them easily and honestly I
'd say the amount of settings is right where I want
.
W
Wojciech Pawlik
Windows internals haven't improved.
C
Crono
•
7/4/24, 4:38 PM
8 was solid under the hood
V
Valerie
People say KDE has too many settings, I don't get that. You can search them eas...
S
SMNFXCN
•
7/4/24, 4:38 PM
i like gnome
's consistency but i like the amount of options in KDE over gnome
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