I’m not sure I understand the question

I used to watch Lunduke’s linux Sucks speech every year it came out. What happened to that guy? Was he always the worst and I didn’t notice til 2020?

Well that’s embarscing

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This is encouraging!

I suppose you make a point, I’m not sure how my school would feel about me open sourcing my project code though 😅

Once I have more time for Personal projects I plan to open source everything.

The cheapest tier is sold at low margin and recouped with ads.

You know we don’t like corn syrup right?

Seems like if you’ve got the ad-free plan and an older chromecast you’re still ok… For now. This is indicative though that the service may not be viable for long for you.

Network Attached Storage

The only thing I know for sure in regards to why nvidia kinda blows on linux is that system RAM sharing doesn’t really work the way it does on windows or with AMD cards on linux. This means that particularly VRAM intense workloads will suffer. Unreal 5 games in particular suffer because of this.

5 minutes ago I saw this same text over a cow on a beach.Now those are gone. Thats deep.

So like, inverted show/hide?

I’m not sure I understand, I’d be interested in seeing it though, it sounds peculiar and I love (for novelty) peculiar UIs

I just saw your v.8 update that looks sick! I agree the noti-panel stuff may not be possible with just a theme on Plasma, about half of my customization experience is with lxqt and not plasma so I forget what is possible where sometime.

OH! I actually don’t think that’s possible without some kludging.

You could make a panel for each icon, have them side by side, and use Panel Colorizer to make them grow on hover, but that’s mega-tedious. Totally doable though. I’d hate to see plasma’s ram requirements with like 9 panels each being monitored for activity though, I suspect the performance on that setup would be rough.

In edit mode when changing the location of the bar there should be an option for “fit content” under height Example: (sorry about the moire pattern, low res screen)

Latte has been deprecated because its features are (afict) all now included in the base plasma panels.

You can make extra panels, have them float, have them dynamically change size, use panel colorizer to retheme only one (if desired).

On my ultraportable I’ve got a sidebar and a lower dock. The sidebar has actively running apps, my menu bar for open windows, a big honkin app launcher button, and my notification panel. My dock has all my frequently used apps, and some shortcuts to frequently used websites. All just minimal plasma-session + panel colorizer.

Agreed on the taskbar. If they added ‘bevels’ to the edges to give it that depth that Win98 had then maybe, but this taskbar looks flatter than Windows 8.1 as is.

Honestly as a whole it kinda just looks like Windows 10 with all the visuals turned off in the performance settings, which is fine, but its not what OP was going for.

If it were me, I’d spend some time in Gimp to make a custom start icon with the text on it, then go for a smaller taskbar, about 3/4 this height. I’d add a line of shading around the top and side of the taskbar and the buttons, and figure out how to retheme the notification panel to be the same shaded color so it appears depressed into the bar.

Windows 95/98 had a design philosophy which was meant to emulate the office, the literal desktop. Desks are 3D and have features, even the simplest ones usually at least have trim at the edges to break up the color. Its too flat. Too sterile.

I prefer offpunk.

Right. That makes sense, thank you for clearing it up.