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0 pointsrenewiltord4y ago0 comments

Bizarrely there was a time when I had the perfect Gnome 2 installation on Ubuntu (16? 14?) and it was better at working like a computer than anything else I’ve had.

But as soon as I upgraded, everything went away. I remember something weird like I could “pick up” a window and swap workspaces and drop it and it was perfect.

I can only guess that that feature was some emergent property of the implementation and not a design goal because I never really got it back.

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tshaddox4y ago

I think there was one point in like 2005-2006 where I had Linux running with multiple monitors and I had found one winmodem that I magically was able to get working. I want to say I was using openSUSE. I had no idea what I was doing but I sure worked hard at experimenting and trying random things!

dTal3y ago

> remember something weird like I could “pick up” a window and swap workspaces and drop it and it was perfect.

Just tried that on Plasma, works perfectly. The ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ past is now!

renewiltordOP3y ago

I recall KDE being a mess but that was during the switch to KDE4. This is something I really need to be better about: losing my memories of trouble with things from decades ago. I have the same hesitancy with FUSE.

dTal3y ago

Oh, KDE Plasma is a completely different animal now. Lightweight (really!) and a pleasure to use as a power user. I also remember the KDE4 days and had firmly placed KDE in the "unusably bloated garbage" bucket, but when I tentatively tried Plasma 5 on my laptop a few years back I said "holy crap" and immediately installed it on everything. Plasma is a gem.

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0 pointsrenewiltord4y ago0 comments

Bizarrely there was a time when I had the perfect Gnome 2 installation on Ubuntu (16? 14?) and it was better at working like a computer than anything else I’ve had.

But as soon as I upgraded, everything went away. I remember something weird like I could “pick up” a window and swap workspaces and drop it and it was perfect.

I can only guess that that feature was some emergent property of the implementation and not a design goal because I never really got it back.

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tshaddox4y ago

dTal3y ago

> remember something weird like I could “pick up” a window and swap workspaces and drop it and it was perfect.

Just tried that on Plasma, works perfectly. The ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ past is now!

renewiltordOP3y ago

dTal3y ago

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