for some reason, i have both gnome platform 46 and gnome platform 47 installed in my system. that’s probably it

flatpaks are fine and useful, i just wish we didn’t move into a scenario where applications that used to be easily available in distro repos start moving away from them and are only available through flatpaks. distro packages are just so much more efficient in every way. flatpaks are easier on maintainers and developers but that comes at a cost to the user. i have about a dozen or less flatpak apps installed and already i have to download at least 2 gigs of updates each week. i run debian

i’ve seen this story being posted so many times over the years and every time it’s such a good read

i feel like people are misunderstanding your point. yes, generative ai is bullshit, but it doesn’t need to be good in order to replace workers

this confirms what i just said in reply to a different comment: most cases of ai “success” are actually curated by real people from a sea of bullshit

this summarizes most cases of ai “success”. people see generative ai generating good results once and then extrapolate that they’re able to consistently generate good results, but the reality is that most of what it generates is bullshit and the cases of success are a minority of the “content” ai is generating, curated by actual people

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unpopular opinion: firefox copied chrome because the unified bar is simply better. the separate search field always felt like clutter to me even before i used chrome

do we have any idea about how this lawsuit is going?

some deb packages add new repositories to the system, so there’s a possibility that just installing a deb package will ensure updates keep coming. if i recall correctly, that’s what zoom does

only with other x11 applications

Even on X11?

yup. i think it had something to do with video calls or screen sharing, which are essential at work

the nouveau driver works fine except when it crashes for no clear reason after some hours of usage

i heard about that. sadly my gpu is so old the latest driver that supports it is the 470 driver

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also, nvidia

first of all

I mean no malice towards you and hope this doesn’t seem aggressive or angry.

don’t worry, that’s not at all how you came across. different points of view, that’s all

anyway, i’m not going to have the energy to reply to this point by point. i will say that i might be biased for being a total linux nerd, so things might appear easier to me than they actually are (even when i take that very fact into account, i’m sure there’s an xkcd for that). but my main point still stands: having multiple DEs installed is a supported configuration in most linux distributions. it’s not a hack or a fringe corner case, even if it might not be recommended for beginner or even intermediate users.

there’s still one thing in your comment that confuses me, though

Maybe forgetting which text editor worked best and seeing a dozen in the application launcher and start searching for the right one

don’t you just use the default one? maybe you like a specific text editor and then you’ll need to change your defaults, but you wouldn’t need to that for every single case

chill

except ubuntu isn’t a desktop-only distro

you might also not be considering corporate workstation in an intranet

it’s also a microkernel, double ew

some nuisances are not so ignorable

that’s subjective, so i’m not going to question your preferences

however, i have both gnome and plasma installed in all my systems and there are some things i’d like to point out from my experience

having duplicate apps all over the place, each with their own settings, so if you forget which one you are using, you might find yourself spending more time in settings than desire

the defaults are DE-specific, so usually you won’t need to think about this, as gnome defaults to gnome apps and plasma defaults to kde apps. it’s not common for something like gnome’s file browser to open pdfs in okular or vice-versa – though it can happen sometimes

the one time this was a problem to me was when, for a while, opening the directory containing a downloaded file in firefox while running plasma would open nautilus instead of dolphin. but then it got fixed on its own

i’m not saying problems can’t happen with that system, just that they don’t happen all the time for everything

switching DE’s can cause browsers to log you out of everything

i have never seen that happen. the closest i got to this was getting kicked from slack because i forgot the keyring password

then there’s the fact that some use gtk and some use qt so title bar buttons and program menu’s can become confusing and ununified

but that doesn’t have much to do with different DEs being installed, does it? the toolkit choice is entirely up to the application

can these things be ignored? sure, some people can. some cannot, such as people with ADHD for example

not to invalidate anyone’s experience with adhd, but, for the record, i have adhd and this has never been an issue to me

my point is: having multiple DEs installed is pretty common and fully well supported. nearly every single session manager supports it (the only one i can think of that doesn’t support that is xdm). there are some small issues that crop up from time to time which might put you off from doing it (which is fine), but this is not some crazy kind of fringe unsupported configuration

and you can uninstall everything from the other DE anyway, so there’s literally no problem about trying it out