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I’m trying it, and it does looks nice.

  • gerdesj@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Me too. I just ran time tree across my home directory a few times. Native console (ie C-A-F3) - 54 seconds, Konsole - eight seconds.

    Waveterm is still installing (Arch AUR). The fan has a Gentooesque sound to it as a suspiciously complicated thing gets built. Oh God … electon … terminal shaking … golang … fans whining … lap melting … the Old Ones are stirring.

    The deps for this thing are many. " I watched Firefox builds on Gentoo glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate". OK, its now arrived and my laptop case is making ping noises as it cools.

    It takes 10 seconds or so to start up. Look pretty. Accept license agreement (wtf). Now what? Hmm lets try typing in that box. OK. time tree. Go back to Lemmy to type the last two paras of this comment, get bored and uninstall waveterm.

    • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      You nailed it. Too bloated (300 MB, wtf), too slow, incompatible with zsh and fish, no tiling, too few keyboard shortcuts, and way, WAY too much wasted screen space.

      Back to my sweet, sweet Konsole.

      • gerdesj@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been a KDE lover since 2.0 or so. I recall compiling it from a tarball for a laugh and it mostly working, which was quite a surprise. I think I had Slackware installed at the time on my desktop and KDE 1.x on it.

        Anyway, 23 or so years later … I’m looking forward to 6. Things have changed a bit 8)

        • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          1 year ago

          ♥️ KDE default apps ♥️

          Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, Skanpage are so nice and I wouldn’t be able to live without them. They feel so polished and solid, and somehow manage to have all the features I want without feeling cluttered

          • Pantherina@feddit.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            Haha Dolphin and solid. Currently having some memory issues due to kde connect, yayy gdb backtraces for all!

          • gerdesj@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Ooh, don’t mind if I do. Luckily I happen to have a tame VMware cluster and rather a lot of laptops (“mwaaa, mwaaa, won’t run Windows 11”) to play with.

            One of my employees has actually expressed an interest in Linux as a daily driver, which has only taken 23 years. I’m looking for my corp standard distro and I don’t think Gentoo or Arch are going to do the job. I’m leaning towards Fedora at the moment but there’s no rush, I only get one chance to bring the kids into the light, despite being the MD 8)

            • Pantherina@feddit.de
              1·
              1 year ago

              If it should be corporation stuff with central accounts and all I think GNOME is really good. Fedora GNOME could for sure be an option and I would recommend Silverblue from ublue.it in that case, as it has all the drivers and codecs