It’s only a matter of time until you match that meme and there’s only one alternative.

_{arch btw…}

That’s funny because seeing that meme, I thought how interesting it was that the “hardcoreness” of a Linux user went from being measured by the length of the greybeard to the height of the programming socks.

Although, I guess back then, the distros mentioned would probably have been revolving around Gentoo, void, slackware, and Linux from scratch. So I suppose greybeards don’t necessarily need the high socks.

Damn shame if you ask me.

Yup there is a bit of that, and also for me, although I readily admit the above is a bit cluttered, there is something nice about having the information laid out in a plane rather than nested in a hierarchy of menus.

Obviously, that’s not always possible, but I find sometimes that, for the sake of each pane appearing “simple” and “clean”, I need to hold more context in my head of where things are, and how deeply nested they are.

If I feel like trolling a bit, I’d say this:

But in all seriousness, I just don’t like the modern minimalistic styles and sliding animations and whatnot. I would not push something like the image above onto a user, but I’d be perfectly happy using that, personally.

For an actual answer, I’ve been getting into trackers lately on what little free time I have and am really enjoying milkytracker’s interface:

I was diplomatically explaining to an older family member just the other day that the top “result” in Google now is a bloody AI summary, and to not trust it, especially for medical advice after they’d sent us a worrying screenshot of it…

I can’t wait for the next conversation.

Nearly 20 years ago, first year of uni, living on my own in a big city.

I was riding a metro back home, messaging my then gf, when some dude grabbed and pocketed my phone. He had a friend with him. I asked him politely to give it back to me, he told me to go fuck my mum, so I started swinging.

I landed a few punches to each one before they started kicking me into a corner. They stopped and jumped out the metro at the next station and I did not dare give chase.

There were a few people in the metro who had seen everything, and no one had come to my help. In the heat of the moment, I may or may not have shouted a bunch of abuse at them which was very stupid and I regret.

But what about my jokes and ability to do black and white generalisations?

Hey, I’m clearly not in the target audience, so take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt.

I think your motivation is great, I absolutely loathe these websites you mention and, if my mother was prone to doing these operations on her machine, I’d worry quite a bit.

By virtue of that alone, I believe this is a worthwhile endeavour and you should keep at it.

But to answer more specifically your points.

1. I don’t know about the state of other GUI tools. Maybe the problem has more to do with exposure than lack of choice? I don’t think more choice is necessarily bad, the real issue is managing to put it in front of the people you’re targeting.
2. That goes to my second point. I could subjectively give you my opinion on it, but it would be better to have it tested by someone who fits the bill of intended user. I don’t know how many of these people you’ll find on Lemmy tbh.

Personally I… am not a fan of the interface but, I am a grumpy middle aged person who started on computers way too young on an Atari running Atari TOS… So my idea of a good GUI would probably send horror shivers down a lot of people’s spines. There are objectively good points to yours: it looks snappy, reactive, there are not a lot of buttons or options so as not to overwhelm, and an easy and clear way to open the file explorer. Looks like a great proof of concept that you can keep polishing and iterating on as you go.

Good luck with it!

You had me look it up as I had assumed she was English, and learned that her mother was of French and Scottish descent…

I’d like to join in the apology, from the other side of the channel. It sucks that the Auld Alliance’s legacy is tainted by this terf piece of shit.

Nobody stays awake like me. Nobody. I am tremendous at it. Everyone says it. Even the fake news people. Some people say I am the best in the world at staying awake. I have millions and millions of awake hours, and the greatest stamina.

And that’s not all, but I wanted to keep it short. The “her life” section on Wikipedia is actually hilarious, I’ll paste it here.

Her paternal great-grandfather, J. J. Thomson, was awarded a Nobel prize for the discovery of the electron. Her grandfather, GP Thomson, was awarded the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the wave properties of the electron. Her maternal great-grandfather, William Henry Bragg, was awarded, together with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, a Nobel prize for Physics for the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray. Alice along with her husband live at Chevithorne Barton, an estate in Devon, which houses the Plant Heritage National Oak collection.

“She has 4 nobel prizes (one joint one) in her family, and she… Has a big house.”

For signal, you can add their PPA As explained here

For Godot, their website has an AppImage. This is a case where I’d say it makes sense not to have it being automatically updated, because if you work on a video game for the kind of time frame that they usually require, you want to decide when to upgrade your game engine (or not to at all) as it may break your current project. But you know your needs, just thought I’d explain the rationale for that particular one.

For Blender… Yeah if the version is outdated and you want automatic upgrades then Snap works. Maybe someone could chime in with another recommendation but that sounds sensible to me.

I also find KDE to be a real mixed bag. Every time I have tried it, thinking “maybe it got better”, it has ranged from being a bit buggy to “holy shit this is well broken”. I may just have been really unlucky but I have been burned too many times and now avoid it altogether.

Yeah, I am quite firmly against “AI” as is being pushed on the consumer by the big corporations and OpenAI and so on, but these headlines tend to annoy me. I agree with you there.

Every time something new comes out, there is a similar moral panic going on, and it’s rarely, if ever, justified (rock and roll makes you a satanist, video games make you violent and so on).

If anything, I think it detracts from a bunch of other very valid points one can argue against the current generative AI, and makes the people who are reticent or opposed to it look a lot less credible when associated with this.

That being said, as time passes and more and more serious studies about it come out, maybe a scientific consensus will emerge and will agree with this, in which case I’ll be happy to eat crow and add this to my long list of reasons why I don’t like these technologies. Until then, I’ll remain somewhat skeptical of those claims.

She is the great granddaughter of J. J. Thomson who got the Nobel prize for the discovery of the electron.

Can you imagine how fucking mediocre one has to be to start their life surrounded by such knowledge, with such an advantage, and not manage to be anything better than a little capitalist lapdog scribbling propaganda in bullshit newspaper .

Congrats on putting yourself out there! It’s hard at the best of times.

Best of luck!

I always assumed they went straight to Linus Torvalds, and that he’d personally revoke your Linux license and flame you publicly after receiving too many.

And he’s also the best fucking programmer of all time.

That sounds like quite the combo, hope you’re doing alright. I’ll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that’s ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience

Terry Davis.

Welp, here’s sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.

You’re going to feel right at home with TempleOS.