Quoting: 14It'll stink to generate a new world, but I'm gonna have to for this. The new landscape looks so good.

AFAIK you can keep your old world and upgrade it, if that's what you want.

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So looking forward to this, it really does feel like one of their most significant updates ever.

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Quoting: drmothXFCE is archaic but good on older computers.

Bah humbug! Xfce is excellent on any computer. :P

But seriously. No DE fits everyone's tastes and preferences, and that's pretty much all it comes down to. Pretending like there's one workflow to rule them all is just foolish. I never could get used to either KDE or Gnome, but I won't even bother analysing the reasons.

I mean, arguing about design is a fun and entertaining pastime for the whole community, but in the end, I love the fact that we've got choice. People can scream about "fragmentation" or whatever as much as they want, but I think they're not thinking it through.

If gaining market share means Linux should be more like the competition and less like Linux, meaning something like an open source Windows or Mac clone, we'd lose what allowed Linux to conquer the world everywhere outside of the Desktop. But fortunately there's nobody with the authority to make this happen anyway. Gotta love FOSS.

I totally agree with you. I'm not advocating for one true DE, I'm just personally not happy with what's out there, which is why I'm looking forward to seeing what System76 produces. I love the diversity of DE's, although I wish there were less bugs in general, which is a result of fragmentation. As Linux grows its user base, that may prove to be less of a problem though. In the short term, I'm going to give KDE a spin.

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Quoting: drmothI am looking at KDE right now as the only alternative, but it's always had too much bling and too many settings, leading to rapid breakage.

There's that weird assertion again - changing options somehow "breaks" your system. What on EARTH are you doing to break your DE??? I've been using Linux daily since 2004 and tinkered with nearly every DE out there and with the exception of some early ccsm plug-ins, I've NEVER managed to break a DE by playing about with its options. Unless you count actively trying to break it. I guess you could do some really funky things with fonts? External themes, maybe? Languages?

How do you break a DE. Goddam.

Do I really have to spell it out for you? This is from a 2 sec google search
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=122881 [External Link]
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/broken-plasma-theme/66755 [External Link]
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/p2nlf5/broken_theme_or_something_else/ [External Link]
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244988 [External Link]

Gnome breaks as well. Of course I'm talking about VISUAL breakage, not necessarily functional breakage, although that can happen too, especially with Gnome extensions.

I'm looking forward to trying KDE, my past experiences weren't great but that was a long time ago.

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Don't forget Tail Quest - also super cute, and made with Blender and Godot. The devs are Linux users.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/824090/TailQuest_Defense/ [External Link]

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Quoting: scaineAlso, edit to query:

Quoting: drmothI want a slick, highly usable, modern DE, that preferably doesn't look like Windows. Gnome is the only decent contender at the moment, but it's not great.

Only contender? You're joking, right!? KDE is superb, XFCE was excellent last I tried. Budgie is slick as hell. Cinnamon? Mate? We're tripping over DE's that absolutely rock - functional, beautiful, varied desktops that only look as much like Windows as you actually want.

Cinnamon and Mate are very Windows centric, and Mate is basically a revamp of Metacity and Gnome 2 which I'm very happy to leave behind. XFCE is archaic but good on older computers. Budgie is better, but apart from Solus there isn't a distro that centres around it (I have used Solus and it's great but not polished enough). I am looking at KDE right now as the only alternative, but it's always had too much bling and too many settings, leading to rapid breakage. But I am going to try it again. There are very good reasons why PopOs and Ubuntu come with Gnome by default.

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I'm keen for this. The decision by gnome to cut a bunch of features and then push everything to buggy, javascript extensions has made my desktop experience worse than it was 10 years ago. Sure, it looks a lot prettier, provided you don't break your experience with lots of extensions.

I want a slick, highly usable, modern DE, that preferably doesn't look like Windows. Gnome is the only decent contender at the moment, but it's not great. Canonical's Unity, once the bugs were fixed, was actually really good. We need something like this again.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI give this all of a week after launch to find that many games that have a certain rating fail the expectations of that rating.

Quoting: KorsI'm counting on Steam Deck to skyrocket Linux usage, or at least to bring more games to linux based OS

I don't see that happening at all. There is a better chance of customers installing Windows on the Steam Deck than that happening. Proton has shown that it will only lower the amount of native Linux titles being made not increase it.

All Proton has shown is that it's actually easier to port the game with Proton than to make a custom "native" release. Developers will make native ports if the performance is better than Proton and Steam Deck is popular. That's not wishful thinking, that's just plain common sense, from a developer's point of view.

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Looking forward to this!

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Are there any games that run flawlessly on Yuzu or are they all still works in progress?

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