blame the devs for that. There was an git issue a year or so ago about just that. a user asked for tiling, many other users chimed in and said “yes, please” the KDE devs said “no, we personally don’t like or use tiling so you’re not going to have it either.” Which essentially sums up KDE development. IF they don’t use or like something than neither will you.
eh I’m going to take a wait and see approach.
The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt…off? like kinda leaning into GNOME “please don’t actually customize me” territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren’t there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.
That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It’s been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.
I mean there’s no point to it, it doesn’t speed anything up.
For example this morning I had a client meeting (saturdays, ugh) so I went to the train station cause it has a mcdonalds and it opens at 630am. They have 5 kiosks there and one person manning the til. People who were ordering from the til were getting their orders faster than people who used the kiosks. I had to wait 10 minutes just to get a coffee and muffin simply because I used the kiosk.
And it doesn’t even make sense. I would have assumed all the orders go through the same system regardless of where it was placed but apparently not. apparently people who don’t use the kiosk get priority?
meh just do what Amazon does “Hey if you’re student you can get Amazon Prime for $5! how old are you?”
me: “I’m 20.”
Amazon: “Ok here’s your cheap prime!”
/me groans getting out of the chair cause I’m in my 40s
Point being just slap up an unverified age gate and be done with it. Really, truthfully, whose going to actually check? who even cares to check? it’s all just a dog and pony show to please the conservative and “think of the children” religious nut jobs who have no idea how any of this shit works anyways. Just spend 2 minutes whipping up a site with a centered div that has a drop down menu asking “how old are you?” less than 18 send it to a “no internet for you page” greater than 18 “go look at porn” page.
Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what’s REALLY happening that they’re requiring scanned IDs or faces or what have you. and no company in their right mind is going to fight this as it’s free and easy data collection. Bluesky doesn’t give a flying fuck as they’re just going to end up selling the data they collect.
well it’s already happening. look what recently happened in Mississippi with age verification.
protip if you’re American and you ask “how long until America has such and such” chances are, 9 times out of 10, it’s already happening or has happened and you’re just not aware.
no prob. I think for certain situations immutable is good. Like in your cause where you use it at work, it makes sense to have a workplace on an immutable distro, just makes things easier. In my case since I’m a developer it also makes sense as the likely hood of me absolutely breaking something is high. plus with nix and the nix flakes and nix shell environments it makes developing a breeze.
For someone at home who is NEW to Linux, yeah it also makes sense. For everyone else? meh I don’t really see a need for it if you know what you’re doing. Don’t get me wrong I love Arch and all its various forks, especially CachyOS, so I mean if it works for you then why go immutable? there’s no right and wrong distro for a user, it’s whatever they prefer. Hell a buddy of mine uses Slackware and will never move from it.
I get it. I recently switched to NixOS from Arch and I absolutely love it. I would routinely go buck wild with Arch and eventually my system would just be populated with garbage or half assed things that I never bothered to fix. With Nix I don’t have that choice. If I fuck around with the config well then it’s not rebuilding and I need to actually fix it. It prevents me from breaking my system. If I do somehow many to break something then I can instantly roll back from the grub OR just retrieve a backup copy of my config which I keep on my server backup and my private git instance. Just have to git clone it.
So I was once one of those anti-immutable people but now I get it and i love it.
ah this was EXACTLY what I was looking for! thanks!
nope just tried it, desktop app doesn’t work on my distro, can’t delete the account now as the deletion method via the website doesn’t work.
what alternative did you end up going with?
I had a script to convert my main Spotify playlist (5000+ songs) to download from soulseek but…yeah that would take a VERY long time and I really didn’t feel like being a soulseek asshole going that route.
If there was something out there where I can take my spotify playlist and just convert it and use it on another/better platform I’d switch right now.
When I first moved to linux I used Mint for a week and then moved to something else. As always by EVERYONE it was suggested to me as a “starter” distro and I really wish people would stop doing that.
I, like you, had issues with it. Sound issues, Wifi issues, GPU issues, and doing personal research and digging the consensus was always “it’s an issue with Mint.” I was about to go back to Windows 11 cause I was like “none of this linux shit works”
THEN I decided to try a different distro, CachyOS, and suddenly the sound was fixed, the wifi didn’t randomly drop out, and my GPU worked flawlessly. I’ve distro hopped since then and those Mint/Ubuntu issues never came back.
Try something other than Mint. if you still have the issues go back to Windows.
It’s pretty much the best and only option for KDE but even then it’s very janky. COSMIC is going to be the best option for this but again, you’re then sacrificing the customization you’d get with Plasma.
And that sums up Linux DEs/WMs. If there’s something you want you’ll have to sacrifice something else. because there are NO DEs/WMs out there that will have everything you want in one package unless you build it yourself.
…unless you’re MaoMaoWM and you’re the dev who just said “fuck it, I’m including everything”