Windows bad, in the next few days I think I will be replacing it on my laptop.
The question is, do I throw myself into the deep end with arch or avoid stressing myself out and go with something easier.
@Co I'm just hoping it isn't as difficult as everyone makes it out to be
@miria @Co Since you constantly complain about guis, which one is the least bad since I am aware that arch doesn't ship with one
@miria @Co well, I guess the correct word is desktop enviroments?
@Co @Chizu dwm is the best software ever written, but she asked for a DE.
@miria @Co i asked for whatever gui solution thing is equivalent to what i use now
@Chizu @Co Windows has been copying Plasma for a while now so yeah that. Also it's one of the few desktop environments to have thumbnails in the file picker.
@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu Xfce uses GTK. This is a feature missing in GTK. Show screenshot.
@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu It literally doesn't have thumbnails lmao. You have to select each file one by one to see a preview on the right. I mean you can see thumbnails for all the files at the same time. Mac has had this since like 2001.
@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu That is impossible to see. You're probably so used to GTK you don't even know this feature exists.

@miria @Co @Chizu stop moving the goalposts

i agree that they're small but on a regular file browser window the size is adjustable

@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu That's a file browser. That's not the file picker. No one's moving the goalposts. If anything you're moving the goalposts bringing the file explorer now when I explicitly said FILE PICKER.

@miria @Co @Chizu so which feature is GTK lacking? cause it's clearly not thumbnails in the file picker

@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu There literally are no thumbnails on the file picker. Are you trolling right now?

@miria @Co @Chizu i do not understand. i showed you two screenshots of said thumbnails. are they non-existent or are they just too small?

@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu They are too small to be visible. If you open a folder with many files, you can't use the thumbnails to identify them. Don't be disingenuous.

@KayFaraday @miria @Chizu did I seriously see someone say nerd when we are talking about DE

@KayFaraday @Co @Chizu You made me install KDE.

See this? They're thumbnails in the file picker. This is an alien concept to GNOME and GTK users.
@numberonedonaldtrumpfan @Chizu @Co @KayFaraday The absolute state of the foot. Imagine talking about the Year of the Linux Desktop when you can't even do a feature Windows and Mac had 2 decades ago.

@miria @Chizu ngl that makes me think of Apple being "innovative" meanwhile android having added the feature years ago

@miria @Co you're making this sound like a real downgrade over windows if that has to be an advertised feature
@Chizu @Co Yeah GTK literally doesn't have thumbnails in the file picker, and that feature was requested like almost 20 years ago.
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