This is not the actual GOG. Only a pirated games site.

It’s okay, so is your machine

Take my angry upvote

Then you’d also be pressed to show the same for Linux.

The only two reasons Linux updates are represented as terminal commands are that:

• Most distros have several DEs that come with different app managing software, so you naturally don’t have a universal “update Linux” button
• Typing a command is simply faster

But in principle, app stores coming with most major Linux DEs can absolutely update your system at the push of a button.

Some distros, like Fedora, even allow you to update your UEFI straight from the app store. How’s that to you, Windows?

No, you misspelled zypper dup. But with enough time, you’ll get there.

To me, it came naturally at some point. I just tried it for the lulz - and ended up staying.

Frens 'tis!

Nah, we’re good

keeps enjoying KDE

And it’s alright! Luckily, both Cinnamon (like here) and KDE (what I’m using) provide you with such option by default.

Yep, but at the same time free horizontal space > free vertical.

Depends on how many apps you use in your workflow at once.

I certainly got to enjoy the vertical bar. Feels more natural to me, like bookmarks.

Quite similar to my setup, except mine is based on KDE (yours seems to be Cinnamon), and I have a slightly wider vertical bar with a little more spacing between elements.

Good job!

Just as you mentioned, GNOME is not very welcoming to deep customization. You either use it the dev-intended way, or you don’t use it at all.

If you like the default GNOME way of doing things, it’s alright. If you don’t - no amount of extensions will help.

And it all would be fine if GNOME wouldn’t be the default on quite a few distros, including, most importantly, Ubuntu. New users come from Windows, hear the old advice to just “go Ubuntu” and meet an absolutely horrible and unintuitive experience unlike everything they ever touched. This alone made Linux some bad rep.

I don’t think the solution is to make basic software Windows-like.

I think I’d rather see more work being done on newbie-focused distributions to introduce the user to all the key differences of Linux, to literally guide their hand in how things are done here. A welcome app with a simple FAQ, a set of wizards (explaining what’s being done behind the scenes) and even direct “click here” advices are all welcome.

Linux way is, for the most part, superior, and once you understand how things work here, you actively don’t want it to be too Windows-like.

Seen such stickers for a decade at least

I see! Thanks for sharing, will try to raise a link. Will see what I can do about protecting the communications from seeds, though

Having trouble installing IPoAC stack, don’t want to manually copy from USB all the time. Did you find the solution?

Sorry! This girl likes to live dangerously, then :)

I would kind of equate unstable and unreliable, but if it works for you - well, then it works! But I’d be very, very cautious running this on my own system.

I feel like the problem of GNOME is not minimalism - it’s lack of proper customization. It’s a minimal setup that works for GNOME devs, but not you.

Personally, I enjoy using Adwaita apps under KDE. Adwaita works great with the “one app - one purpose” philosophy, while KDE allows you to make global arrangements the way you like, so that everything you need is at your fingertips, and everything you don’t is out of the way. You can customize KDE to look in a way that compliments Adwaita, and it looks and works very well.

I think there’s one more big angle to modern design minimalism. It gets out of the way.

Every day, we are bombarded with millions of design elements. If they would all scream, show themselves, try to be special, many would get overwhelmed, overloaded, overburdened. The classic design screams individuality, impression, emotion. The minimalist one is there for the function without distraction, like a quiet servant - there when you need it, out of sight elsewhere. It’s a design philosophy of an age when everything is at your fingertips.

With that said, and with my strong preference to modern, minimalist designs, I appreciate the effort others put into making their computing experience truly reflect their workflow and intention.

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