Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

  • deathmetal27@lemmy.world
    826·
    7 months ago

    As for why they adopted KDE, they probably discovered how hard it is to work with Gnome developers.

        • realbadat
          152·
          7 months ago

          Since the start. Forget working with them, it’s a rough go to even try and communicate with them.

          And that goes back to mailing list days, creating a personal grudge against Gnome so firm that I haven’t used it since the early 2000s.

          Thankfully there’s KDE for my general use and a wide variety of lightweight options for other uses.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      152·
      7 months ago

      I remember in an interview talking about the Steam Deck and its controls, GabeN said (paraphrased) “What we learned from the Steam Controller is there needs to be zero learning curve. Players want to pick it up and understand it immediately.”

      Given that ethos, it’s not difficult to understand adopting KDE over Gnome. Most of Valve’s customers are coming from Windows, and KDE resembles Windows’ UI, where Gnome resembles iOS after a stroke.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        39·
        7 months ago

        Average GNOME hater is so blind they cannot distinguish between MacOS and iOS. No surprise, considering they never grew out of Windows UI paradigms.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          61·
          7 months ago

          So, what you’re saying is you think Gnome resembles MacOS after a stroke? Fair enough.

          Whichever who cares. I find Gnome so feature poor and so “why would you ever want to do that?” and so “You have to do it the way it occurred to us, not the way it occurred to you.” that I legitimately hate it.

          • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
            29·
            7 months ago

            No, GNOME is far superior to MacOS, so superior that Windows 11 copied it, and KDE copies Windows. That makes GNOME the godfather compared to hacky KDE.

              • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
                22·
                7 months ago

                You think so? That shit has 2 right click menus and settings hard to navigate, not to mention the unbearable ad ridden Start menu, shitty Control Panel and AI garbage you cannot escape. You need something like AME project to make it barely usable. Oh and forced updates taking hours of time. All this is not a problem on Linux.

                • lud@lemm.ee
                  52·
                  7 months ago

                  Yes, and I think it’s easier to use than gnome.

                  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
                    14·
                    7 months ago

                    False, wrong, invalid opinion. I have been a user of Windows since 95/98, and a user of GNOME for almost 7 years. The current GNOME 40+ workflow and UX is beyond superior to whatever Windows is. Windows only makes sense till it does not, and the moment you try to do things other than the convoluted hack way we have been taught for over 20 years, it falls apart.