Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
NGL, I didn’t realise it’s an actual Dolphin icon on the folder until I saw this post. I always have the Dolphin pinned on my taskbar but it’s teeny tiny so I couldn’t make out the symbol.
I like Thunar better. There was something really minor about Dolphin I didn’t like. Maybe it was the way it handled tags or something, I can’t remember anymore.
spent almost a decade straight on Win10 LTSC then switched to regular Win11 - I think Microsoft forgot how to make software. Vanilla edition is so bloated it is scary. Considering embracing Ubuntu.
awesome, tho tbh i like total commander on windows
Yeah, still a shame that never got ported to Linux. There’s Double Commander, which is fine, but still a little inferior somehow.
double commander had a weird issue where the window size wouldn’t change properly and display solid color in resized area on my system for some reason :/
gentoo, worker and xfe all seemed to be pretty good, but i haven’t really tried them much. mc usually works well enough.
Have you tried mc? (Midnight commander I think it’s the full name).
I have one old laptop with Windows 10 sitting around, and only because it’s the only way to update the Xbox Series controller I have that randomly bootloops and thus is essentially useless anyway.
So this begs the question: how much of Windows can I delete and replace with foss stuff, while still having it technically be a Windows OS?
Soon:
“I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows plus NT. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another nonfree component of a fully functioning free GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX… and whatever NT does.”
The absolutely most? ReactOS. It’s not really suitable for daily use, but it is essentially a clean room reverse engineering project of Windows itself.
You mean GNU\Windows\NT
Backslashes in file paths makes me go 🔥😡🤬😤😾💥
That’s just running a full fat installation of Windows.
Sounds more like Winbloat. >_>
😢
So can Okular, but recently how well it works on windows has been getting worse and worse.
(Someone on the interweb:) “Hey, you should try KDE Connect”
(Me:) Uh, I don’t use Linux on my laptop and that’s the computer that I use the most
(S:) “Well it also runs on Windows.”
(Me:) Really?.. Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can’t remember what it’s called this week
Kde connect just really feels like it was made by someone who wanted to use it. Also just the fact that I can beam stuff between my desktop, phone, and steam deck is so nice
FOSS >> properitary🤮
Hmm darkmode doesn’t work. And it’s 615 MB on disk, is it an electron app lol
not at all. QT/KDE app. the size is probably due to bundling of QT and KDE framework libraries because usually windows installations doesn’t come with system versions of those. it’s like flatpak KDE runtime.
I kinda dislike Dolphin, but I also know it’s very customizable and haven’t dig into the options, so it’s possible there’s a version of it I like that I haven’t found yet. If that makes sense.
Same. I try it every now and then and am constantly blown away with how it just seems to know my system and auto mounts things, and knows how to thumbnail images and videos without being nudged…
…but I just can’t get over the clean glossy UI. It makes my whole system feel like a web app.
And thus I always go back to Thunar or Dired because apparently cavemen just like to bang rocks rogether and that’s okay
I love Dolphin. Great for GameCube and Wii games.
is this a /j
ComOP is joking about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(emulator)
I thought the same thing when I saw the comic.
I know about the GameCube/Wii emulator, but I wasn’t sure if they knew Dolphin File Manager exists.
could be, or not, we will never know for sure
either way, it is funny
When I look up “Dolphin windows” I just get the wii emulator (I am clueless)
https://apps.kde.org/platforms/windows/
Halfway down the page.
Omg really? I am installing this on my work laptop
You can run lots of kde apps on Windows and Mac OS. I personally use Kate at work since it is far faster than VScode
There even is a konsole port in the works
Kate is wonderful
Okular is the best PDF software for Windows, beating Adobe’s own solution.
That is a pretty low bar.
Installing this as well on my work laptop, I do frequently get part way through typing kate then remember it’s notepad++
wait, KRITA IS KDE?!?!? i’ve been using it for so long how did i not know that
Does it have a weird name starting with K, or have a C replaced with a K? Most likely a KDE app. (I always thought Krita was a play on Critter. Turns out it’s Swedish)
Does it have a weird name starting with G? Gnome.
Then there’s Gwenview, which was ported to QT and adopted by KDE, but was never renamed…
Then there’s Gwenview, which was ported to QT and adopted by KDE, but was never renamed…
Let’s all just start calling it Kwenview
There’s also Gcompris to break the rules
honestly i never thought a lot about the name so i just accepted it
All my homies love Kate.
Kate’s a lot better than Karen
Can recommend, Dolphin makes life on windows slightly more tolerable. Kate for Windows is also amazing
