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by ThePhysicist 46 days ago
It's the ultimate power user desktop system, in my opinion it even dwarfs MacOS in terms of how you can customize it and how it looks. It left Windows in the dust a long time ago in terms of functionality and usability (not that this would be particularly hard given how Windows has been degrading over the last decade). Everything is super snappy, smooth, built-in apps like Konsole and Dolphin are super polished, Konsole runs circles around the MacOS terminal app.

Of course running Linux on modern hardware is still a bit fraught with errors, though it has been getting much better. I run a current gen Thinkpad X9 Aura and apart from the webcam which has fundamental driver issues on all Linux kernels everything runs really well, power efficiency is also great at around 10W, not as good as a MacBook (which I also use daily) but close enough for me, and I still prefer Linux over MacOS any day.
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pjmlp 45 days ago
Ironically KDE version of COM (KParts and D-Bus integration) is so much easier to use, I don't get why some folks at Microsoft always double down on making it so hard to use from C++, when it is the main API surface since Vista.
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mixmastamyk 45 days ago
Interesting that you call out konsole because I think the UI is horrible, perhaps the worst KDE app. The defaults with multiple toolbars are the opposite of what I want in a terminal and the context menu is stuffed with dozens of irrelevant options like char encoding, which I’ve never changed over a thirty year career.

It’s cluttered enough that even though I prefer a GUI preference dialog, I’ll use e.g. alacri/ghost/ki/tty instead.

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KetoManx64 45 days ago
It's a positive and a negative. I use Konsole daily and have all the toolbars hidden. Every so often if I need something I toggle them on with Control + Shift + M, but it's once in a blue moon that I need that.

I've tried Kitty and Alacritty but the fact that you have to dive into the config file for everything right when you're starting out with the terminal was just not worth the time investment in my eyes.

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backend_dev82 44 days ago
Yeah I don't really use desktop systems any more. I just use a window manager and a few other things, and I'm happy with it
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