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Re: Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment

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Post by arpa » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 4:03 PM UTC

kitotik wrote: post #38

arpa wrote: post #13

For the most beautiful DE, it's so... meh. It's a shame. Does anyone here remember Beryl? Now that was mindblowing stuff, still can't wrap my head around the fact it's dead...

Perhaps wayfire[0] can fill the compiz shaped hole. [0] https://wayfire.org/

It actualy seems like it could! Thanks.

Re: Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment

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Post by adar » Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:57 PM UTC

hiq wrote: post #57

nsomaru wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Debian stable (buster currently) is my daily driver. I'm quite happy that I have stable targets of packages to develop against. I'm curious about the type of work you do that Debian packages are "outdated" and do not enable you to continue your work. I've used many different distros but I keep coming back to rock-solid Debian.

I guess front-end development is the obvious one. The Node.js version on Debian Buster is 10.15.2~dfsg-2, while you have 12.16.2 on the official NodeJS website. To be fair, OP mentioned that the official packages were often useless, not the distribution as a whole (you can often install custom packages / binaries, although it's not nice).

AFAIK many (most?) Node devs completely ignore the version that comes with their OS and use something like nvm to manage their Node version(s) anyway.

Re: Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment

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Post by starky » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

eitland wrote: post #28

starky wrote: post #25

Linux is never beautiful IMO. There are so few packages out there that actually have good UI/UX design that you could put whatever DE you want on a distro and it will still be ugly. Whenever I use Linux I pretty much always end up right back at running Openbox because it ends up being one less thing to get in the way.

Check out KDE Neon. It is beautiful (unless you are as sensitive to alignment or typeface issues as I am to lagging ;-)

My argument is that you can choose any desktop environment you want with the most well designed window decorations, but as long as you have most packages built on GTK+ or Qt by people that aren't UI/UX experts, your system is going to be ugly.

Re: Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment

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Post by tywkeene » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

A few years ago I installed FreeBSD on my main machine, and actually used it for some time (6ish months?).

It was really nice that I could actually google things, and usually come to a mailing list or the FreeBSD manual for my version of the OS, and then actually be able to find what I was looking for and have it work (most of the time).

It's the opposite with Linux. Yeah, this is just another "hey lets copy osx and pretend we're actually doing something real" project, and more than likely, everything will work fine just like in the standard ubuntu, but it's still just another fragment in the already overcrowded and starting-to-stink-from-all-the-dead-projects ecosystem.

I get the freedom to do everything you want, fork this, change that, I get that 100%, but man it would be nice to have Linux be unified.