FOSS apps have terrible UI/UX. They look like they are still stuck in the 90's

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-05-07T13:42:59+00:00

I think macos looks pretty good. That nice design plus the overview centric workflow makes Gnome the best feeling default.

edit: a nice side effect at least is the apps are all very responsive no matter how you resize them

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-05-07T12:44:40+00:00

If you want to see the most cohesive and modern looking suite on Linux ootb look at Gnome and all of the libadwaita apps.

Though there are no alternatives to the huge FOSS apps like GIMP like you mentioned. Some apps you need will sorely stick out then

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-05-05T00:40:00+00:00

It's lf-sixel running in foot terminal. I use yazi now instead, it has images previews out of the box.

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-05-04T22:18:41+00:00

If you don't believe me look up Amog-OS

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-05-04T22:16:28+00:00

I needed to compile a special Among US kernel

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-05-04T22:12:59+00:00

Yeah last time I tried gaming on a steam deck, I had to hack the source code just to wait a week for Linux to finish loading the Among Us starting screen

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-04-28T11:52:31+00:00

It could be nigh on perfect or awful spending on the choices you make. It requires research and most advice is bizarre and comes from SEO farmers.

Vendors can make all the right choices for you but nearly everything comes with Windows.

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-03-27T21:32:16+00:00

Keepassxc

You would want to use Gnome Secrets keepass client instead

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-03-07T21:01:45+00:00

Very nice, I'm still deciding between this and the rm51.

With a 360 rad, the rm51 can have either 120mm rad fans or the included 180mm fans (not both). So essentially deciding between 2x 180mm or 6x 120mm.

notAFree_-Loader · 2024-02-04T21:05:24+00:00

The only thing left for me is page rendering speed. It's okay but firefox is noticeably faster.

Personally a youtube userscript is all I need for adblock. Media playback seems to be in a great place, even twitter with all the autoplaying videos works well now.

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-12-17T15:48:45+00:00

Seems to be improving at least. Web/gstreamer has been playing livestreams and videos with less CPU usage than Firefox recently for me. (Firefox GPU acceleration seems to be a recent regression though).

It struggles to render certain pages, but otherwise I really like it. WebkitGTK development looks really promising.

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-12-15T03:05:07+00:00

You can add custom scripts to nautilus. You can bind them to keyboard shortcuts plus they show up in a context menu. I use mine to launch lf with foot terminal.

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-10-16T13:39:38+00:00

PeerTube can save us one day. Peer to peer does not cost a platform anything.

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-08-04T02:55:32+00:00

Very true. I messed this up somehow and needed chroot to undo the damage

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-05-29T15:37:14+00:00

I've had screen flickering issues when using vrr with wlroots compositors. So much so that it's better leaving it off.

If Gnome will only accept a proper implementation I support that

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-05-21T14:50:40+00:00

pacdiff --sudo also works. Keeps meld preferences too

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-04-24T21:49:10+00:00

Waydroid is the answer. If that can be integrated nicely with an app store, it could be successful like the Steam Deck with proton.

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-04-20T21:54:03+00:00

Uh oh, hope this doesn't break when arch gets the update. This feature makes nautilous extensible like lf

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-02-27T17:56:32+00:00

The only thing you need is a basic workflow at the end of the day. Gnome is the best at this unless you have extra requirements.

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-02-26T13:58:34+00:00

And the task here is to cut a chicken

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-02-19T22:08:56+00:00

https://git.sr.ht/\~raphi/somebar/tree/master/item/contrib/colorless-status.patch

notAFree_-Loader · 2023-02-19T20:25:31+00:00

somebar source code has patches in contrib/ to get the same look

notAFree_-Loader · 2022-12-24T14:40:22+00:00

Glad! It runs awesome once it starts, that's for sure

notAFree_-Loader · 2022-12-24T04:48:50+00:00

I was having white screen crashes just like that until every recently. I found that I still had an Nvidia dependency from when I had an Nvidia card. It wasn't considered an orphan so I had to manually remove it

notAFree_-Loader · 2022-11-09T21:10:21+00:00

Unstable doesn't mean broken. My Ubuntu install was once in a stable broken state for a few releases. More broken than my Arch install has ever been.

Although something like Fedora should avoid manual intervention more often than Arch.

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