I think you have to learn, but I don’t think it’s difficult to learn. As I said I find it intuitive. My mum could learn it and she is not techy at all. That’s actually a very good example, because she couldn’t print on Windows and now she can with Linux.

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 But would you advertise Linux as that outdated?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.

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:

• there’s no tray
• what’s that line at the top
• where’s the start menu
• where are the opened apps
• is the app drawer really that ugly

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?

The best I found is Miro talk. Which is P2P and working in browser.

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)

None, but if you want to try one I can sell you cheap my Navon vacuum and mop (from spar). I don’t use it because it’s faster to do it myself than setting it up.

May try hoes for an initial push, to get going.

If you want to join developing an alternative, I’m in.

If I am the tankie you must be the lgbtq femboy. There’s nothing wrong with it. We are here for different reasons :D.

Stereotypes aside, aren’t you using one?

• Image processing, (e.g.: Camera enhancement, gimp, rawtherapee are full with AIs)
• sound processing, (noise reduction, etc…)
• text processing
  • reasoning models for programming, math
  • LLMs for grammar checking / searching when I don’t know the keyword / researching when I’m not interested that much about the topic, but I want multiple sources / getting common knowledge I don’t know yet.
• Recently I tried 3D asset generation. Damn it gave me a perfect character model. But it’s not for work so I’m not gonna pay for it.
• etc…

They are useful.

These are not deadlines. A task takes what it takes. We only provide an estimation.

They write code but instead of a company, a university pays them.

I had heavy problems to solve. Claude Opus could solve some. I could solve them too, but with claude it’s faster. One recent problem would take around two days if I would do it, but claude did it in half an hour.

I’m not advertising claude, if it gives bullshit response I turn it off instantly. Like with every tool, you need to learn to use it.

Another example: In the app I work on, there’s a huge list of city integration files. I had a loose set of specifications for a new city, and with claude I could roll out a new prototype in no time. It saved me about a month of work.

It’s expensive and energy hungry for sure.

It does work for me. I use it and it is helping a lot.

Oh that’s another consideration indeed.

It’s e2e encrypted. Although, as I noticed, the key is just a short pin, unless you use password, but the recipient might not use it and your messages are just as secure as your recipient.

Symptom treatment. Here in europe medical dept is unknown.

I use prisma ORM with kysely Query Builder. Prisma has its own schema language that we write with great IDE support and provides a parser to generate type-safe clients. It gives you the ts client generator by default. But for example, kysely also needs types and somebody wrote a prisma-kysely generator, which generates types for kysely based on the prisma schema. Prisma since then also have Typed SQL (type-safe raw sql). (Although, I haven’t tried that yet.) So prisma can cover that missing 9% of cases, and there maybe 1% left for untyped raw sql.

Do you think Lutra can replace that 9+1% of cases? Or would it be also useful to write migrations in Lutra?