Not at all. Newcomers want intuitive UI. And gnome is really that.
Examples:
One unified settings app. Containing all the settings that as a average user needs. It’s always at the top right corner.
Change the wallpaper? Top right corner -> settings
Add a network? Top right corner -> settings
Extend display to projector? Top right corner -> settings
It’s not weird at all.
What would be a better starter DE then?
If somebody is coming from a different DE he wants the same interactions that they used to do. It’s easy to hate Gnome because people see that first. And they find:
And these are only expectations and you just learn to do things differently.
Just because it has a different workflow that big players implanted in people, Linux needs to match that?
The worst thing you can do is to install a dock extension to make it feel like you are in your previous DE. If you want to get the real Gnome experience, you need to let it be Gnome.
As for the design, it’s indeed subjective, but we can agree that it is modern with balanced spacing. You can feel that a graphic designer worked on it. And if you don’t like it, that’s the same as with other DEs, install a theme. As you can’t change QT apps to use titlebar you can’t change GTK apps to use app menu instead.
And finally the keyboard efficiency: Indeed every major DE is keyboard efficient, but I wasn’t expecting it for Gnome when I was learning it, because I’m videos, you always see clicks, so I mentioned it.
It is included because it is innovative, newby friendly (windows and Mac are both more complex), It has efficient keyboard navigation by default. And it has pleasant, modern UI by default.
Could you please not excite cancel culture against a great DE?
And the uncomfortable question is, why was he moved closer to scala in the first place.
(ok I’m no different, I learned elixir once)
I feel like it would be easier to help with the original problems that led to these unusual choices.
You can change the sorting to show the new posts. You can also change the list to show posts from all communities from all federated instances (except from banned ones). I mostly find very recent posts.
Downvoting because the title says “best” and I disagree. Apple products have a bunch of drawbacks, I wouldn’t buy them even if the hardware is strong and efficient.
I don’t think it’s ADD. There’s a book called ‘thinking fast and slow’. In that book the psychologist separates the mind functions into two systems. System 1 is for intuition, no effort, fast thinking. System 2 needs effort, slow, but precise. What happens here is that simply people are trying to be efficient with their thinking and they use less system 2 which is required for reading.
I used claude code to migrate a small rust project from raw sql to an ORM. It was next level. In a timespan of a small bug fix I could rewrite the data model. It tested the code, it fixed the errors, I was amazed. I reviewed every change, so I could spot problems like migration would fail with prod data. I wrote a new prompt to fix that and it fixed.
For anybody new to claude code: It’s a tui app where you can log in and write prompts for the project in the current directory. The way it works, it searches files in the project based on the prompt, and it locates the related code sections. So it gathers the context pretty well. It can suggest changes, it can suggest running CLI commands, it can read its output. It reacts to itself. You can accept or intercept and correct it anytime.
I ran it in docker just in case.
In summary, this is a real deal, but of course the code needs to be reviewed. Sometimes, it produces, simply put, unmaintainable code, that shouldn’t be used. Works or not, it should move.
Yeah, I deliberately did not specify it. But I can image configurations work against some groups. Of course you shouldn’t store your footages at your enemies.
There’s only one method that covers also lost footages. Live streaming the media into multiple trustworthy places.
If it is for documentation try docusaurus.
This won’t protect your .env files though, right?
Right, but my machine is safe at least.
It’s possible. For pnpm package cache you need to attach another volume, and another for globally installed packages.
Keep your secrets:
alias npm="docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app -w /app node:latest npm"
So, for example, online editors that store state in huge jsons and has frequent backup can benefit from it. That’s actually great, good luck with it!
By IO heavy I meant db operations or other external requests. When the request handler starts, it waits for the IO to be completed. While it waits, it can accept other requests and so on, so the bottleneck is the IO in my case, not the request parsing.
I imagine it like this (imaginary numbers):
Which case, it wouldn’t matter which http framework to use. However, there are probably other use-cases.
How much overhead does a simple request handler have with Brhama and with Express in ms?
It matters because most of my endpoints are IO heavy. I assume the framework cost is negligible compared to that, and if it is negligible for typical use-case, then what use-cases do you see where it matters most?
Like KDE? It would be a lot more complex. I would fear giving KDE for newcomers. It’s basically windows 98, but with frosty glass themes, fragmented apps.
Or Cinnamon? You upgraded to windows XP. Congratulations.
Deepin? Looks cool until you try to use it.
Xfce? That’s stable and fast. But would you advertise Linux as that outdated?
Cosmic, still early.
Budgie, maybe.
I really think gnome is the best default.
Nevertheless, It’s you mixing intuitive and familiar. Moreover, people who give Linux a trial, they wish for something different. And they really like Gnome from my experience.