Remember, you’re a customer, not a consumer! Don’t dehumanize yourself :)

While I personally can’t stand GNOME these days, it’s not the problem here. It’s Canonical’s desire for Snaps, a notoriously less standardized (and mature) packaging format, to be used for literally everything in Ubuntu; they’re aiming for system components to use it in the nebulous ‘future’.

Thanks for keeping us on Lemmy informed about this week’s horseshit. Sorry you got downvoted for posting this, I hope people don’t seriously correlate posting about something like this with endorsement…

I might get downvoted to hell and back for this, but can we stop talking about this piece of work distro? I don’t think the project needs any more PR, period, it’s what the loser who made it wants. Let the people who for some reason trust this collection of dotfiles and scripts do so in their own foolish bubble.

They are an arm of the government lol they for sure had this one queued up before this was even announced

Super cool goal they’re achieving, installing this on my OG Surface Laptop. Thanks for making me aware of this.

Trivago

Any other female crusters? #LetItCrustQueens

This is a bit reductive on the situation with Ubuntu side of things but I don’t know why you’re being downvoted since you’re not technically wrong lol… vibe-coding on a large scale always results in very poorly structured code unless significant manpower is used for manual review.

If you start one, I’d love a second reply! I don’t mind seeding some smaller quant models.

Reading after the edit. Honestly, if you ever switch from Kubuntu, just use Debian with KDE. Since this presumably isn’t going to be running games you won’t have to worry about potential NVIDIA driver bullshit. I’ve personally had nothing but strange issues with Kubuntu and software distribution but YMMV.

I kind of disagree. Cinnamon is fine functionally, and the software management is super easy, but it’s ugly by modern standards, let’s not kid ourselves. That start menu is pretty bad.

I mean, hell, Fedora SOAS is a thing.

I’m in your exact boat right now and I’d love to know the same. Thanks for posting this, by the way! You’re not alone.

Why is this being downvoted? This is just a naive and curious post; you guys really shouldn’t fall into the Reddit habit of downvoting things that you simply don’t like to read, instead of doing so when things are hateful, factually incorrect, or bad advice.

FML. Where do we get abliterated models once they start flagging users for obtaining them from HF? I’m not fond of the current state of LLMs, but I’ll be damned if I don’t do my best to preserve uncensored things with what’s happening around the world right now.

Oh my god, I’ve never seen someone else think this. Hello twin…

Of course- you are doing very important work for others! Keep it up!

THANK YOU! Please keep contributing! :)

All I can offer you is what I’d consider vibes. GIMP looks ‘old’. I don’t mind programs looking dated, but I absolutely mind them looking ‘old’ since that, to me, implies a worse experience compared to ‘dated’. It looks like it crawled out of the education software setting intended for mass adoption and only barely did so.

To be more specific, things like proper spacing between UI elements & UI and text spacing go a longer way than I think most FOSS developers that don’t work with UI expect. Everything feels cramped, like it is pressuring me to know what to do; there is a shocking lack of collapsible menu items and visual distinction is very low when parsing things like selected tool settings. Basic features are also somewhat unintuitive; when I go to drag a slider for opacity, for example, as an end user I don’t think that single clicking and dragging will select the actual numerical value of the slider. I expect to have to double click, otherwise I expect the slider to simply do what I want it to when I left click and drag it left or right.

I don’t think anyone reasonable expects to pick up heavily featured photo manipulation software and simply know exactly how to do as they please, but there are some surefire ways GIMP contributors can clean up GIMP’s UI and UX. I mean no ill will by this, because people who contribute to FOSS do so with their free time and money, but I feel like a lot of software developers and highly computer-literate users think ‘good enough to use for everyone I talk to’ means ‘ready for everyone to use’ and this simply is not true. Talk to any ‘normal person’ in a somewhat young* corporate design environment, for example, and they’ll probably scoff at you if you suggest GIMP measures up to anything Affinity or Adobe. Those people are dicks, but their attitude often comes from a place of valuable opinion. It is not keybindings or solid basic features that they feel is missing, it’s… polish, I suppose? ‘Completeness’? I’m unsure of the right word to use but something about GIMP just feels half baked, visually and feeling-wise at least.