KDE Plasma is not a desktop environment

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Didn't read, but as a person who uses XFCE, I really wish there was a more common API for applications to use for a GUI, that's not based on GTK or QT. I find when using an app like Kdenlive or anything that uses QT, I have yet to figure out how to change things like disabling sound alerts on dialog windows or change the size of the scroll bars. I also hate the smooth animations when scrolling and such. I really really really wish they stop copying Windows. Windows is such trash tier software to be copying from. :P

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I'm still around, but I rarely visit. :P

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The purpose of satire news is to goof on shit. Nothing more. Enjoy it for what it's worth.

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It's too much of a Reddit clone, though at least the "internet points" system was changed. I did enjoy the layout of Ruqqus quite a bit more, but hey, at least Saidit is still around. :3

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The elitist (as I call them) want us peasants out of the way, so they can have their beaches and resorts to themselves.

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When bringing mentally ill people into the White House backfires...

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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

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Ugly just like Windows. :P

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Seems they're admitting that they support grooming. :P

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I see => as "equals or greater than". Me being someone who programed in assembly, C and BASIC, JS doesn't seem to be something I'd want to learn anytime soon. :P

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I hate Microsoft products. My work computer had like Office 2011 or something (outdated I know), and was recently updated to 2013 or something (outdated I know), and the thing now ran hell slower. Zooming in web mode in Word no longer zooms in real time, but puts a zoom message on the screen... WTF... I also had to go to configuation hell to make Outlook look the same as before. :P

I already hated the interface, but I totally hate the whole thing now. Microsoft products are pure gargage.

LibreOffice is what I prefer and use at home and teach with.

m68k

That's indeed unfortunate. :P

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Fuck music companies. I stopped buying music back in the mid 2000's because of that Rootkill from Sony.

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Too much money to be made not to push the vaccine. :P

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I'm a little late to the party... Anyway, my answer is not so simple.

If I could, I would still use KDE3/Trinity. However, I found it a pain to get Trinity working in Manjaro (I could had just screwed up installing something though). So I use XFCE4, which is the closest thing to KDE3. While I can mostly deal with the god awful GTK UI, the file picker/chooser is gutter trash (IMO).

I also have Plasma 5 (KDE) as a back up DE incase XFCE4 fails for some reason. But I don't like Plasma/Qt at all. Even with compositing disabled, Plasma just feels sluggish, or the UI just doesn't feel right (I can't put my finger on it). Also, when shutting down or logging off Plasma, (for me at least) it sits at a black screen for 10 seconds, where XFCE4 is almost instant when shutting down or logging off.

Of course, note that regardless of which DE is used, and depending on the software used, getting use to both the Qt UI and the GTK UI will most likely be a thing. The little things like how double clicking feels different, scrolling, navigating with the cursor keys and such, are some the noticeable things I find that works slightly different between Qt and GTK. And yes, I know there are more GUI toolkits, such as wxWidgets, but I'm just talking about the two main ones off the top of my head. :P

Regardless, I'm still happy with what I have, and the fact it works. On the other hand, Windows at my job is currently making me puke.

m68k

I use to play OpenArena, QuakeWorld, Warsow/Warfork and Xonotic, but things got boring after many years of playing those games. The main reason I stopped playing, is simply people are only playing Clan Arena. While there are some TDM and CTF matches here and there, most of those games are off hours for me. :P

Also, to answer your second question, I don't know any upcoming games, since I don't follow modern games much today.

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That just totally sucks. The community needs to get some control over the identity politics, otherwise Xonotic will become a dead project. :P

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Seems there's a new indie-game called Dead Gaem, and it appears to be a single player game. Not sure if it'll have multiplayer, but we'll have to see. There is a demo out, though I can't offerer any feedback, since it only supports Windows.

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