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Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The macOS version of it also sucks because you can’t close windows from “Mission Control” or whatever they call they call their Gnome clone. Put an X on each window whereas Gnome lets me do that and clear old shit out the way when I need to.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The bottom line is that when I really need macOS, it’s built into the settings. Gnome is effortless. Windows is a constant battle.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

macOS does have a setting to remap the caps lock key and game has to recognize game sometimes. They stole the good ideas from Gnome. But if I can’t hit CAPS Lock+tilde and have a real terminal slide down, your operating system is dead to me.

I’m sure I can get there on Windows if I cared to but I’m too busy deleting Candy Crush or whatever.