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What desktop enviroment do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So a few months back I asked about you guys os in c/asklemmy, so this time I wanna ask about your desktops you use on this same account.
(I use kde but plan to move to cinnamon I find kde buggy and gnome tracker3 randomly broke for no reason + themeing so yh idk if these happened to anybody)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Impressive! I'd like to use this moment to apologise for my assumptions as I've only used Trinity once, and assumed that it was unmaintained, given the old school UX and finding it was a fork of KDE3. I guess I was mistaken, and I'm happy that I was wrong! The more, the merrier!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they continue to add new features that weren't present in KDE 3 too, in a manner that remains true to KDE 3's iconic look and feel. They post about these new features on their Mastodon, and write in depth about them in their release notes.

They also port and maintain old community-made themes, mods, and applications as official packages, which is something I really appreciate even though I didn't use it back then.

My favorite thing about using *Nix and FOSS in general is that we can not only preserve it's history through forks, but immortalize it. If you want to keep the experience and workflow you enjoy, you simply can. Using Linux with Trinity is like having Windows XP but it's still receiving (and will for the foreseeable future) actually good feature updates, security updates, bugfixes, and access to current software and hardware.