Good choice I think, way too sensitive to just work like that

Did you know that ShitDows doesnt support middle mouse button for anything? XD it opens the start menu like all the time

No opening in new tab or closing tabs

Dafuck

You are talking about global themes which is a bundle of plasmoids (which are executable code), SDDM themes (executable code, they are working on their own login manager to change that) as well as simple files like color schemes, cursor themes, icon themes, splash screens.

Well that is probably dash to panel. Or does it autohide somehow?

Themes are not a security risk XD executable code, widgets and a lack of standardization resulting in shady install scripts, that is a security risk

Themes are just colors

Edit: after reading the post, the below is not really relevant to the blog post

Interesting one

I guess it is fair that nobody wants to deal with GNOME and their reluctance of theming. I like theming and despise “light” (white) themes or not well readable dark themes (that dont save any energy on non-OLED displays).

I am on KDE, using GNOME at work (it is okay but worse in like 20 aspects I regularly use). Tried COSMIC on lower end hardware and it was not great.

I like that they support theming but agree, their desktop is pretty ugly.

Tho I use GNOME with dash-to-panel and blur-my-shell as well as the breeze cursor. The default theme is kinda weird (not blurring wastes potential) and the macOS like top bar is worse to use and wastes screen space (most importantly on Laptops).

GNOME is way worse than KDE, COSMIC has a couple of nice things but is worse than GNOME still for my use cases. No surprises.

I have to stress though that statically linked binaries are not good. Many distros shipping COSMIC use those, wasting RAM, optimisations and potentially vendoring outdated dependencies.

I also believe people when they dislike C++ and say KDE has a messy codebase. So I very much hope that COSMIC (with a substantial theme) can replace KDE for me. But I highly doubt that.

More importantly is, how old DEs make the transition from C and C++ to Rust, Zig, Go or whatever else you prefer.

With Windows going all in on Javascript you can see how not to do it XD

Debian has GNOME by default I guess, but yes, try KDE.

Install nix, use nix-shell to define specific python versions.

Try Haruna or Celluloid

Does this work in any application? And on Wayland?

I noticed that some special keys dont do anything on my keyboard and I couldnt find a way to change the layout to one that has them

Literally dealt with this just yesterday

I guess I need to change quite some things

They dont have a longterm kernel and the “stable” one broke 3 times last year. Wohoo!

Yes of course, it inputs text.

But gboard is surveillance software, your voice is literally analyzed on their servers.

I did some network logs of gboard, you might be interested XD it basically sends data all the time

Yes of course, it inputs text.

But gboard is surveillance software, your voice is literally analyzed on their servers.

I did some network logs of gboard, you might be interested XD it basically sends data all the time

Lol what

True, you could use text input and some voice input on the phone, like FUTO voice input

It is fine but requires the complete Kf5 Qt5 bundle (which is end of life) because it is unmaintained. But yes, that is what you would use for now

For the tts part, try PiperTTS it allows to use various models for speaking

Yes but they change it quite a lot.

Nick from TheLinuxExperiment tested it and thought touch support was broken, but it was just Ubuntus changes. Vanilla GNOME might be better

Something with KDE or GNOME. KDE has better convertible support overall, but currently no working software keyboard (plasma-keyboard is in development tho)

GNOME has no adaptive things, works fine tho and has a software keyboard

The FSFE has stickers too

https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html