• adarza@piefed.caEnglish
    2 hours

    i almost went cinnamon when i set up my trixie here last month, but went plasma because of some kwin addons. i did install its nemo, though, for when i need a file manager that doesn’t choke on thumbnails (like dolphin does) when an extension doesn’t match what the file actually is (like a lot of images served by web sites and saved by a browser these days)

  • Nemoder@lemmy.ml
    4 hours

    What that needs is a smoke animation that starts as soon as your core temps get too high.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    Very nice. I love Cinnamon. I use the Eleganse theme, I’m a sucker for transparency.

    • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      Agreed, Helium is the better Chromiun browser anyway. I use Firedragon myself.

  • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    12 hours

    Hell yeah, I don’t see a lot of people rocking Debian but I like it. I’m more of a KDE Plasma guy myself but cinnamon is also great

    • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
      2 hours

      i just switched back to debian for personal desktops after years of mint (and a few others). i’m using intel cards right now… drivers are a total non-issue… so that helps some, not having to deal with nvidia drivers. games are running great on stable kernel and drivers (heroic flatpak for launcher and wine).

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11 hours

    Nice cinnamon.

    Will that run on Ubuntu next to unity, switching with something like lightdm?

    • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
      2 hours

      you can add it, and switch at login. there’s a cinnamon spin of ubuntu, so packages are in the repos. you’ll also find meta packages assembled by both ubuntu and debian that will install what their respective ‘full desktop experience’ has (browser, libreoffice, utilities, and what-not).

      • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
        5 hours

        Top or bottom task bars make the most sense, imo.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      15 hours

      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.

      • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
        2 hours

        the panel on the side. it just makes sense–if you can get ‘used to’ it.

        screens are wider than they are tall, but most content viewed by or worked on by most people goes vertical: web sites and text documents. hell, even most pictures and video people take these days, too, because they still don’t know enough to rotate their damn phones.

        • Allero@lemmy.today
          1 hour

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

      • Krusty@quokk.auEnglish
        5 hours

        I’m gonna hard disagree with you. No malice.

        It’s just that I’m used to a wharf or start menu™. Personally, these are always on the corners. Usually the bottom left or top right (my preference.)

        • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
          2 hours

          you can have your ‘start button’ in the bottom left if you want, and still have the panel going up the left edge instead of along the bottom.

        • Allero@lemmy.today
          4 hours

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

    • Peasley@lemmy.world
      5 hours

      The name is awful. I’d rather see the posts here if that’s the name of the community

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        8 hours

        Ah yes, exactly what Lemmy needs at this point: fewer posts and fractured communities, that’ll certainly help make the platform better in its infancy.

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
          3 hours

          Fewer low effort posts and more qualify always helps platforms

          Ever heard of enshitification? The last thing we need is shitty memes and misinformation posts that harm users just for the sake of increased engagement

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
          3 hours

          Because we’re here to read. Links to articles.

          If you just want to post photos, do that shit on pixifed.

          Don’t lower the quality of Lemmy with low effort posts.

        • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 hours

          Right? I love seeing how people rice their DE. However, I would also love a community dedicated to it. We could post some tips or tricks to accomplish certain looks.

          • ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world
            8 hours

            I love seeing that stuff too! I tried it a long time ago on Windows with Rainmeter. Got one looking like Persona theming and another with Calvin and Hobbes. May try to get back into it now that I’m on Linux.

  • berty@feddit.org
    11 hours

    Linux Mint has a Debian version called LMDE :D running this on an old laptop, everything’s fine.

    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 hours

      I want to give that a try. But I have my Mint setup just how I like it, and I don’t really want to start over.