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  • When OP says “layout” I think he means the old as windows 3.1 layout and workflow. It was good in the 90’s. Now it feels cumbersome and dated.

    Don’t get me wrong. I know that’s the main selling point of Mint: Familiarity and stability. I settled on it for 19 years after I got tired of distro hoping. I’ve contributed financially to it every month for years.

    However, it’s that cumbersome workflow which got me back into Gnome where I use only two extensions: transparent task bar and window autotile.

    Gnome on a laptop flows naturally and out of the way.


  • Usually the problem is that new users go out of their way to fuck things up.

    I don’t see anything wrong with that. Most of us did that and that’s how we learned. But really, all mainstream distros are good out of the box unless you have an unusual hardware configuration. Specially now with flatpaks, appimages and Snaps.

    Of course if you want to tweak and twist KDE or install extensions on Gnome or PPAs from who know where on Ubuntu or overuse the AUR in arch you need to know what you are doing.

    However, it’s no different in Windows but for different reasons. The most common way to fuck windows up is to start installing software from non reputable sources. I think many of us have had to clean windows installations from friends and family when it becomes unusable.


  • You don’t mention the specifics of your hardware and that’s an important consideration.

    I was a mint user for more than 10 years. It never crashed. It became my fail back when I moved to Fedora/Gnome. It’s very crashed, but my laptop (ThinkPad X1 carbon) supports Fedora out of the box.

    People keep saying “a DE you can customize…” While I love KDE, the amount of configuration available means that’s it’s easy to screw things up.

    I suggest Gnome because it has a modern workflow and it’s otherwise out of your way. Of course, you can install extensions. Just don’t go crazy because extensions may not be as stable as the core.

    The GNOME workflow becomes natural after a few minutes.















  • rarsamx@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldIs It Just Me?
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    13 days ago

    I don’t think it’s just you. Like it wasn’t just one person thinking computers would make us dumb or the automobile making us lazy. I’m betting that someone somewhere thought that cooking food on the fire would make us weaker.

    Technology has that ability to generate opposition from status quo.

    And as with any technology, there are good uses, bad uses and frivolous uses.

    Remember the awful nonsense web pages of the early 90’s?

    I think AI will make the life’s of some of us easier. But I also think it will continue widening the digital divide.

    The biggest concern is that, by nature, AI needs massive amounts of power which can only be paid by people with big resources and those people are training it. AI has the trainer’s bias.

    However, end consumer AI is the tip of the iceberg. AI will succeed when we don’t even realize it’s there.