Stupid space wasters that make everything look like a toy.

A professional taskbar should be attached to the bottom of the screen, and an unprofessional one should be auto hidden or on the side of the screen. Top’s a bit weird, but has character.

I moved from Mint to Bazzite the other day and was just about ready to move back when I saw the default desktop. Flatpaks are… Different, but don’t seem particularly better or worse yet. That fucking floating taskbar had to go though. Disgusting. Stick to the edge of the screen like you’re meant to.

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Me, GNOME’s biggest fan, silently amused.

    Anyway you can change it by right clicking on the bottom panel and switching it off.

    The floating panel in KDE is adaptive, so it will attach itself to the bottom when a window is maximized or hovers over it. This change was made almost 2 years ago when Plasma 6 was first released.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netBannedOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      KDE, which is part of what made me so mad - it’s meant to be the windows-like! Now I’ve worked out how the desktop works I’m really enjoying the fine tuning though, it really lets you get things exactly to your liking.

      The only annoyance I’ve had was copying my profile into Firefox, which required some reading about flatpaks and flatseal, but I do have a question about the file systems: I’ve got a second drive just for my steam games formatted in ext4. It seems to work fine so I’m probably just going to leave it as is, but is there any reason to change it to btrfs like the main drive?

      • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        it’s meant to be the windows-like!

        Its where GNOME heretics go to be buried in 10,000 checkboxes and layers of customization options and small clickable areas. /joke

        but is there any reason to change it to btrfs like the main drive?

        No reason, any kernel filesystem should support saturating a disk drive. You can use BTRFS if you specifically want compression, subvolumes and features like btrfs send/receive but real world performance for games will not observably change.