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TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

Still nothing on the “gnome massively reinvents the wheel every 2-3 years” thing? Not surprised, considering it was BS.

Removing desktop icons, forcing the activities view as default at some point etc. do you need more examples?

TCB13 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Service for letter/PDF archival

Just explain me how simple folders by date or/and whoever send the letters in PDF format aren’t enough for a regular person?

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

Use XFCE for a day and then come back here and talk about performance. Not that I like XFCE’s crude approach to thing but it is indeed fast and BS free.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

horizontal virtual workspaces are a major paradigm shift somehow

Yes. I also consider the removal of desktop icons, the default change to going into the activity view and whatnot important shifts and attempts at reinventing things.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

Yes because constant flashy animations that get between you and the task is the definition of “extremely productive”. The same goes for themes made with CSS and other web technologies and their absolute top notch performance. “Extremely productivity” is clicking a button and getting the window/panel/icon or whatever in front of you before your brain can even register the event, not a 2 second fade in followed by another equally excruciating fade-out animation.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

Hold your horses, when I said “exist because” I was implying any particular time frame, I was just saying that if GNOME was really that superior everything else would’ve already died out without users / developers.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Calamares 3.3 Released as the Next Generation Graphical Installer for Linux - 9to5Linux

Yes, very next gen!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a5f34121-09cf-431e-95f0-4a03d580f89f.png

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

You left off the part about this being just your opinion and a lot of people like gnome.

Do you know why there’s KDE, XFCE and others? Because there’s also a lot of people who dislike GNOME.

I don’t dislike GNOME, I just know for a fact that most of what they do is trying to “reinvent the wheel” every three years.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to linux in Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

“I’m not saying gnome is bad here”… but it lacks basic DE features, pushed useless crap like the activity view to people and slow animations that can’t be completely turned off. To top things they try to reinvent the desktop experience every 2 or 3 years and end up making things worse (like when they decided to remove the desktop icons).

All for a “design and usability view” that doesn’t amount to anything productive.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in how much backing up would you do of a media server?

You think you can get the media again if need be.

Well that’s my usual approach however we now live in the world of censored tv shows by netflix meaning some of the new media you may get might not be the original thing. :(

TCB13 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in File Browser vs Nextcloud

You can buy it a single time. Owlfiles Pro Lifetime $49.99. It is a good deal for how good it works.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in File Browser vs Nextcloud

Sure, www.skyjos.com/owlfiles/

TCB13 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in File Browser vs Nextcloud

SFTP is not the same as Drive functionality

If you’re a good client it is.

TCB13 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to technology in Ok, but what is XMPP? | Video

“Denshi explains the basics of XMPP: The future of decentralized messaging.” > finally someone that actually understands what they’re saying. Matrix is questionable open-source and privacy disaster, XMPP is tested, reliable, secure and above all a truly open standard and decentralized it just lacks some investment in better mobile clients.

What people fail to see is that XMPP is the only solution that treats messaging and video like email: just provide an address and the servers and clients will cooperate with each other in order to maintain a conversation. Everything else is just an attempt at yet another vendor lock-in.

TCB13 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in File Browser vs Nextcloud

Personally, for mobile, I access my files with SFTP pointed to the same folders I sync my desktops with Syncthing.

Also, what stops you from having syncthing without a persistent connection? You can set it to just sync whenever the phone is plugged in and/or you manually open the thing.