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Spoiler: GNOME wins

Btw their GNOME Theme manager is here

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 28 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Wtf why are people downvoting this.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Some people hate life.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 18 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I use KDE but GNOME is cool too lol.

Btw it is pronounced with a G.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You will never make me pronounce the G. Never!

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you don't pronounce the G? So it's like... "NOM-NOM-NOM"?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

LOL. Yes, but add an E at the end. Like this::

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

Thats only in english. In german it is Gnom and you pronounce the Gn correctly.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, this is getting dangerous now.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

GIF has a hard G, unlike gNOME. 🔪

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago
[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

Or as english people would say DE

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I also use KDE because it's better for gaming. But I love GNOME's UX/UI. I wish I could go back.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In what ways is it better for gaming?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Gamecontroller calibration and test all is pretty nifty in KDE. Something like that is dearly missing on GNOME.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I use jstest-gtk. Really light handy tool for testing and calibration. Antimicrox also works great for rebinding controllers.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

Checkout some videos by Michael Horn, GNOME 46 is actually pretty good for gaming.

[–] redeven@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Same, only reasons I had to move to KDE were, GNOME crashes when both my monitors are off (so, every night when I go to sleep), and tray icons are terrible (as GNOME intentionally doesn't support them), the extensions are all very lacking in features compared to the Windows tray (kde somewhat matches almost everything except being able to reorder the icons).

The ArcMenu extension is by far the start menu I've liked the most out of all options on linux, and it saddens me that there's no KDE plasmoid/widget variant

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

I prefer KDE for desktops, but gnome for laptops. However I've been using gnome on my desktop for a while now. With some minor customizations it's fine.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's pronounced "juh-know-may."

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only if you have a Klingon accent.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a Klingon tea-like beverage. A warrior's drink!

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah, warm beer, yes!

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago
[–] Velonie@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Genome

That’s so cursed.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hahaha no like GNOME

https://m.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/gnu.html

The Halmafelix voice pronounces it correctly.

But thats not your fault, english is like french, not pronouncing the G in gnome. It is like a-gn-ostic

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://m.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/gnu.html

Halmafelix pronounces Gnu (the animal) which is just the same as GNOME.

G-N-O-M-E

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

BIG kDE is suppressing this post.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

The big shadowy kabal of would-be konquerors...

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I use Plasma 6 myself and it is pretty awesome. But GNOME (which is btw pronounced as in a-gn-ostic) is also cool

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

some people need to grow up lol