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Re: Gnome 40 – The anti-desktop desktop

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Post by tsar9x » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:18 AM UTC

clircle wrote: post #60

tsar9x wrote: post #29

I gave up on Gnome, there are many things that I had to tweak to have productive environment, and I don't like to be part of experiments(Gnome 40) on my machines. I simply moved to i3/sway, best decision ever.

I like i3/sway on small screens, but on my large 4k screen all the windows are too big, too much white space. For me, the tiling paradigm does not work with big monitors. Linux on the whole doesn't work well with 4K. I don't know what the solution is, I just want 150% UI scaling like windows.

I'm using i3 with 4k monitors, just set Xft.dpi: 163 in Xresources and that's it. Depending on your applications, you may need to tweak some individually, for example Spotify can be adjusted via cli argument. There's one con, you can't have mixed HiDPI and non-HiDPI displays.

For sway it's much easier, you can have DPI scaling per monitor, but XWayland apps are blurry, so I'm waiting for all my apps to be updated to Wayland. There's experimental sway/wlroots branch with proper XWayland scaling, but I don't have easy way to install it.

Re: Gnome 40 – The anti-desktop desktop

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Post by mousepilot » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

Shorel wrote: post #75

walrus01 wrote: post #2

I don't get why "Linux on desktop" people feel the need to continually reinvent the concept of what a desktop GUI is, just to be novel or different. This goes back to things like KDE3/KDE4 and Canonical's Unity. What is wrong with a more traditionally designed desktop metaphor such as how it's implemented in XFCE4 or LXDE? As a baseline for comparison I've used very nearly every linux or BSD based GUI desktop (on top…

Canonical's Unity was no reinvention of anything. It was the application of better concepts from both OSX and Windows. That was it strength. Top menu (better mouse usability), HUD (better keyboard usability), grid virtual desktops (better visual muscle memory), and so on. Nothing there was new or unique. But it was more ergonomic than the alternatives now. I still miss the HUD, and the reason I use Gnome is support f…

I personally would like to thank everyone who caused the demise of Unity!

Re: Gnome 40 – The anti-desktop desktop

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Post by Shorel » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

mousepilot wrote: post #82

Shorel wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canonical's Unity was no reinvention of anything. It was the application of better concepts from both OSX and Windows. That was it strength. Top menu (better mouse usability), HUD (better keyboard usability), grid virtual desktops (better visual muscle memory), and so on. Nothing there was new or unique. But it was more ergonomic than the alternatives now. I still miss the HUD, and the reason I use Gnome is support f…

I personally would like to thank everyone who caused the demise of Unity!

I disagree so much, but your candidness deserves an upvote!

Re: Gnome 40 – The anti-desktop desktop

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Post by mousepilot » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 11:58 PM UTC

Shorel wrote: post #83

mousepilot wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally would like to thank everyone who caused the demise of Unity!

I disagree so much, but your candidness deserves an upvote!

heh well I guess in unity's defense, it didn't get in the way as long as I could find the terminal button.