I guess this relies heavily on home row mods?

So far I’ve never had a clean typing experience with home row mods 😢

I love them, I just keep getting accidental triggers no matter what configuration I use. And eventually I have to disable them.

Would love to have them work perfectly but maybe that’s just not possible due to just… That’s how it is

I’m still on Nova because it just works so right for me, many others I tried didn’t.

My needs are very basic

• A home screen I can place icons in specific positions (eg not forced auto sort)
• folders (drag multiple icons on top of each other to create a group/folder)
• Message count on icons, e.g my Whatsapp icon should show a little number indicating amount of new messages
• and finally, an app drawer showing all apps in a single list (without any fancy grouping)

Maybe this is normal now but years ago Nova seemed to be the only one that offered all these basic features together

No, already burnt out from reinstalling different distros. I try Linux desktop every couple of years and it’s always the same frustrations. I’ll give it another go next year

I just found every little thing so hard in Linux.

Screens, scaling, nvidia drivers, games… Even spent an hour on gnome trying to get my desktop background image to fill the whole screen instead of repeating to fill the space. Solution ended up being download an image editor and resize the image to be the exact same size as my screen resolution. Tried KDE and kept hitting 100% CPU bug

In the end I just wanted a pc that worked, so went back to Windows with WSL.

Seems a perfect combo. Do my dev in WSL, and the desktop just works.

However I’m getting increasingly frustrated at every UI change Microsoft make… Which is what made me try Linux in the first place. If Microsoft Win7 and early 10 was great, I wish they’d stop touching UI and just improve under the hood

What’s wrong with your pc if Task Manager runs like ass lol.

Task Manager is like… The one thing guaranteed to run on a potato

What is wrong with flat pack? I heard they were good

(noob question probably)

My favourite so far is Windows as my DE and WSL for my Linux

It’s really the phrasing “average joe”. I would genuinely give the average Joe a strong recommendation to not self host.

A beginner wanting to learn to be more techy and willing to put in hours for troubleshooting etc? Sure go ahead. But thats definitely not the average Joe.

My biggest advice to a beginner would be to buy a spare budget router, plug it into your ISP router, plug your pc into the new router and do all your messing around in your own network.

Break the internet because of bad configure? No stress, it’s only your little network, your flatmates/family aren’t yelling at you.

Can’t figure out what you did wrong and want the internet back to search? Just plug your pc back to the untouched ISP router so you get internet again

Self hosting nothing changed my life.

So much free time and less stress once I abandoned self hosting 😅

I heard of Beehaw first but I got rejected twice when trying to make an account, so I tried World next and here I am.

Also don’t understand how things work, so wasn’t really sure what lemmy.ml was but I read it didn’t matter where you created an account so I just stuck with World 🤷

Yes I like compact view, but a “text only” view would be great also. I’d probably use that when on mobile data.

I also noticed Compact View still loads the full image. I see some posts it downloads a full high res 4mb image just to display it in a tiny thumbnail. Not good for mobile data 🤣

Yes I like compact view, but a “text only” view would be great also. I’d probably use that when on mobile data.

I also noticed Compact View still loads the full image. I see some posts it downloads a full high res 4mb image just to display it in a tiny thumbnail. Not good for mobile data 🤣

Ohh that’s perfect, thank you very much

My biggest issue with Lemmy is I don’t think it’s on search engines?

I don’t get anything from google searching about keyboards and lemmy.

That’s really a major problem for me. One of the huge benefits of reddit was I could find so many helpful things for my hobbies just via Google etc