Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    As someone who had to help coworkers with Windows, Mac and Linux problems one of the main problems of macOS is the fact that you have to use the clumsy GUI for so many things and that the Unix-like underpinnings are badly maintained and outdated so many systems have several versions of the same tool installed in various locations (OS-, Homebrew-, MacPorts- or whatever other package manager of the day versions).

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    6 months ago

    MacOS is like taking an athlete (Linux), dressing it up as a K-pop band member and tying it to a post so they can only move in a specific way and sing the same song.

    Why would anyone want that when you can have the pure, raw performance and stamina of the athele and make with them whatever you’d like?

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    6 months ago

    I think Gnome wins as I have it. But I would take the vanilla macos shell (not the underlying OS, just the shell) over vanilla Gnome.

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    6 months ago

    I solved that problem by using a tiling window manager on every OS. Configure it to use your favorite shortcuts (from i3wm in this case), put super + spacebar as the whatever launcher you like and tadaaaa!

    Everything feels more or less the same.

    I do that since I became addicted to i3wm years ago. The worst part is just remembering the keywords to type in the launcher according to what OS you’re on.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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      6 months ago

      I am trying to use the LXQt stack with Wayland compositors currently. Havent tried labwc, which sounds like a good candidate for the job, but all the others pull in a ton of dependencies that I actually decided to try it with Kwin now, as I like KDE Plasma and I know Kwin is solid.

      I also really like COSMIC but it has a long way to go to become plasma like. Plasma 6 is pretty nice in many things.

  • chepycou 🇻🇦@rcsocial.net
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    6 months ago

    @boredsquirrel I personally use neither of those, but I’ve had to fix issues on computers running both.
    I can tell that the apple GUI is clumsy, but sadly inevitable when you want to do stuff. I would always lose time trying to tile or move windows without success.
    At least in #Gnome, it’s #linux so you can fix everything without being forced into using a badly designed GUI and a lot of things work well. Though you’d better not be looking for some customization on Gnome, but if you bought an apple device you’ve already kissed customization (and fair prices) goodbye so to me there is no real question between the two in terms of user experience.

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    6 months ago

    I have a MacBook Pro and I recently tried GNOME3 for the million time. macOS wins. GNOME3 sucks.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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      6 months ago

      I asked that once and it is pretty different.

      1. GNOME didnt look like that all the time. I dont know when but they went from bottom panel to top panel to left side panel to this layout.
      2. The top bar is used differently. Workspace indicator, but no global menu (which makes no sense) or app menu. Extensions can make it pretty much the same
      3. The dock is hidden and forces the workflow with workspaces. I dont think thats a crazy feature and dash to dock makes it equal again
      4. The window buttons are different
      5. The top bars are thicker etc.

      Some settings are different, the tiling works better but yeah it is too similar.