Laurel Raven

Congratulations and condolences

…more the latter than the former I think

No, not secure enough, you could still plug in an infected USB so better glue those ports shut

But if you want really secure, turn it off and bury it in a concrete vault

Not sure why you’d think that, I’m agreeing with you, though I’m referencing context from the post you were replying to… We can’t have free software while demanding it be denied to some, that’s the very antithesis of “free” (as in freedom). OOP seems to think companies should be denied access to software that was developed and distributed freely when that was literally the intent those developers had when they placed a free license on it. You seemed to disagree, and I was adding to that… At least that was my intent, if it didn’t come across that way then I apologize

And who literally gave the work away without asking for payment, for anyone to use freely?

Like, do we want free software or not? We can’t have it both ways

That last bit is crucial: setting up a PC for gaming in the living room may not be that hard for someone who knows what they’re doing, but for someone who doesn’t, it looks impossibly complicated. The experience is also not nearly as streamlined or polished. Nobody wants to have to fuss with their system when their friends are over and they just want to play.

Just because something is easy for you or me doesn’t mean it’s easy for everyone, maybe not even most people

Next up: having a PC with offline games will be deemed piracy

Yesterday: “you wouldn’t download a car”

Tomorrow: “you wouldn’t drive your own car”

That’s fair enough, though sticky corners are a thing, and my multi monitor layout it would still work (big ultra wide main on bottom, three smaller above)

But I think there’s even value in it just staying in the same place. One big frustration I have with modern UI design is shit moving around, often trying to anticipate what you want, but I’m lost looking for it the last damned place it was. The start button moving a little left and right isn’t nearly as bad, but it’s along the same lines

Perfectly valid

Thanks! I’ll check that out, been needing a good temp monitor

What do you use for the thermal monitor?

Do you prefer Guake over Yakuake because you use Gnome or other GTK based DE, because of specific features, or because it’s what you’re used to? Or something else?

I’ve only used Yakuake (and I’m on KDE) so I’m not familiar with Guake, but I’m curious

There’s also activities, which are similar but can have different start menus, task bars, and themes

Probably can do more than that with them too, but I’ve never gotten that deep into them, unfortunately

So, one thing that Windows 11 did that I think was half good was moving the taskbar stuff to the middle.

I hated it at first (have to use it at work, and still some at home for specific things), but then I used Start11 for a little bit to try to get rid of the shitty start menu changes and noticed an option to keep the icons in the middle but move the start button itself back to the left. And honestly… I think that’s perfect. Puts the programs that are open front and center while keeping the start button in a fixed location next to a corner border so it’s easy to move the mouse to it without hardly even looking.

Anyway, while I didn’t keep Start11 (I never do… Like the program but it’s always been buggy as hell going back at least as far as Start8 (edit: it ate the 8 in Start8, fixed), I did make my Cinnamon, and later my KDE Plasma, taskbar look like that.

Also moved the sys tray next to the start button instead of next to the clock, and with a couple other monitors on the clock side (CPU and memory usage), the taskbar on my system is pretty balanced.

Maybe not as flashy or interesting as what you’re looking for, but it’s a layout I’ve really come to like

(ETA: the centralizing of the taskbar in Windows I think was bad only because it made the one part that should be in a fixed and easy to hit location, the start button, move around based on how many programs are open… I think if they’d gone with centralized programs and left side start button, it would have been much better received overall… But, this is just my opinion so do with that what you will)

Apparently, if they’re distributed under GPL, MIT, BSD, or Apache license, they’re exempt