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Comment Re:What does any "desktop experience" really provi (Score 1) 39

The desktop background is the modern customized splash screen.

Window decorations and effects matter to me, for both functional and aesthetic reasons. To me, KDE is a sort of modernized cross between Windows 7 and NeXTStep in that department. And it gets right things that Windows has gotten worse about in 11, like being able to read the fucking clock. I seriously don't know who came up with that idea, but on the same display, I can read the taskbar clock on KDE without glasses and not on Windows unless I scale everything and throw away the benefit of the high-resolution display. And that's on the automatic display mode, but you actually also get settings.

Comment Re:I'll stick to KDE (Score 1) 39

I tried using Wayland with Devuan Excalibur (Debian Trixie) and my experience with it was not good. I had some games not work and a lot fewer windows could reopen where I left them. This is with AMD graphics. With Nvidia on Devuan Daedalus it really just doesn't work at all for me, and I'm not interested in figuring out why.

This is irritating, but hopefully X will last until my next PC or even my next GPU, which will probably be from AMD. The Nvidia Linux driver situation is unsatisfactory — they will not miss my money in any case, which no doubt helps explain the lack of attention. While their Linux drivers are typically current these days, and have approximately the same performance as the Windows drivers, they still just aren't very stable. Also, the installer sucks, where with AMD OSS drivers that's simply not a thing.

I ran every wm under the sun back in the 90s as well, designing whole desktop and widget themes around each one, and now I just use KDE. Does it do every single thing I used to do, no. Do I care, also no, because it's a great desktop. It does pretty much all the things I used to actually do with compiz. The thing I really want it to do (per-window scaling) I didn't have with compiz either. Yeah I know compiz still exists, but it's flakier than ever.

Comment Re: pile of pet projects (Score 1) 179

I've bought all kinds of stuff because people bought it to use with one Windows version and the very next version didn't support it. This is usually due to literal malfeasance on the part of the maker, not Microsoft. The new devices speak the same protocol and WOULD work with the new driver, but either the driver is coded to not work with them or even just the inf file doesn't have the right vid/pids. You can sometimes make them work with hackery but your average user can't do that. The idea that Windows has good hardware support is very stupid, but there's no shortage of stupid people here.

Comment Re: pile of pet projects (Score 1) 179

You have funny notion about 2015 and before printers. Printers had USB, ethernet and wifi in 2015 and before. Long before, 2010 the plug and play USB came out, ones with ethernet even older.

My HP multifunctional laser print/scan/copier thing is older than 2015 and going strong with usb/ethernet/wireless, in fact back then they put thousands of pages of toner in the cartridges so even the black is at 10% now. Time to think about replacing that for the first time ever but the other color are at 40%-50%

Generic postscipt often leaves behind fine control so pictures might look jagged, duplexing not working, transparency problems, color management not possible, margins cutting things off and not properly controllable.

Comment Re:Extreamists? (Score 1) 58

Of course they're extremists. They don't believe anyone who produces anything should have the right to their own property.

Perhaps they simply don't believe that copyright terms should have been extended, and that culture belongs to The People, as copyright law used to acknowledge with its original period. Maybe the extremists are the ones that think that culture should never belong to The People, like you.

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