Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It’s been this way forever. I never see KDE get near the hate from gnome users because it just doesn’t affect them.

    When you can pick whatever you like i don’t understand why you’d waste time complaining about any you don’t use.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      6 months ago

      This is a dumb take too, it’s important to criticize and scrutinize anything and everything down to the smallest detail to understand what works and what doesn’t, how and why that is the case in order to make better decisions for the future. You have to think critically, especially about software even when it’s a matter of preference.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Do you think the devs aren’t “thinking critically” as they’ve made a very cohesive de?

        Besides that, people saying “Gnome sucks, it’s garbage” is not a constructive criticism anyhow.

        The only dumb take is the one above this comment.

        • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          6 months ago

          What? No I was saying that NOT criticizing GNOME just because of the old thought-terminating cliché of “don’t use it then” is silly because it’s important to critique everything and no one is just saying it’s “garbage” apart from people in your head

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I remember a lot of KDE hate up until Gnome 3, which was controversial, to say the least. It mirrored old-school Mac hate, with a lot of invalid arguments parroted by people who never took time to learn it (or more to the point, to unlearn what they came from).

      I’ve swapped between Gnome and KDE a bunch of times, and it hasn’t really made a difference to me in many years. There was a time when running apps built for one on the other was a painful experience either way. Nowadays my DE choice doesn’t really influence my application choices.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      I never see KDE get near the hate from gnome users because it just doesn’t affect them.

      It’s because everyone that uses Linux will stumble across gnome at least once because it’s in Ubuntu which is the first and only distro a lot of people use, so you have to go out of your way to use something else like KDE.

      i don’t understand why you’d waste time complaining about any you don’t use.

      Why do people complain about anything?

      Because why not? I don’t like Gnome but I complain about it because I can and I don’t like it.

      I also complain about IOS, macOS, And a lot of other shit that doesn’t matter. I just like to voice my opinion like everyone else. There is no need to listen.