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What does is say about me if my DE is not even covered? Did I win?
I don’t understand all the friction Gnome gets. Yes, I’m satisfied with everything default on the Debian/ Fedora Workstation. That’s because the DE get’s the hell out of my way and most everything can be easily managed without touching the mouse.
Those two things alone are so important to me, and such an improvement over Windows, that I’ve just never gotten around to trying other DE seriously.
It is because it only “gets out of your way” if you like its choices. If you have different preferences, the strong opinions very much get in your way.
There is a reason GNOME extensions are so popular. And those extensions break all the time.
@yesman @cm0002 Funny enough, I’ve disliked GNOME since 2,0. I loved GNOME 1,4’s control panel, and was a big fan. With 2.0 and beyond, I felt like GNOME got simplified more than I liked. In due course, I drifted more and more toward KDE/PLASMA.
I also like KDE’s Kontact for email and calendar, and have made extensive use of the Activities - like a guy with multiple tab management extensions in a browser. 😁
It’s all just personal preference at the end of the day.
If season 1 of Mr. Robot is to be believed, I run KDE because I’m a sociopath. Cosmic fits my workflow better at work, though, so maybe that balances it out?
Gnome, because I don’t care. 😄
KDE is good but please, for the love of god KDE devs, you need to realize that some people…a lot of people actually…use more than one monitor.
Whenever I use Plasma I feel like I spend more time getting my windows arranged correctly across both my monitors with different workspaces. if each monitor had it’s own set of virtual desktops then it would be the perfect DE.
One thing I found, coming from multi-monitor macOS to Kubuntu, was having to adjust to both desktops sliding left/right at the same time. I still don’t really like how it effectively shuts off applications that aren’t on the active desktop, and kinda puts a barrier between work spaces.
With a Mac, I have a regular desktop on one screen, with full screen applications on the other, which I can swipe between as much as I like. I miss not being able to do that in Linux.
Well, that’s actually one of the new features of Plasma 6.6, which is releasing this month. You might have to wait a while on Kubuntu, but if you’re on something like Fedora, then you should see it probably before the end of the month. :)
Kubuntu 25.10 seems to update pretty quickly, so I’ll look forward to seeing it.
Love the kinesis! I used it for while before finding a split, curved keyboard with integrated trackball!
Integrated trackball? Name please!
Thanks!
I see MX518 with dents. I upvote.
I want to buy one, but it looks like there are none, even used. (But I’m not ready to pay absurd prices either.)
I swore to that series of mice. I had both a blue and a red MX500, and later the grey, “dented” MX518. I feel like there was an MX510 at some point, too, but I don’t remember it. When my final MX518 finally broke, about a decade ago, I needed to find as close a replacement as possible. I landed on the G402, which I feel comes very close. The shape of the shell is very close, as is the feel of the mouse in your hands. I’ve had no complaints with the sensors. It has the same buttons as the MX518, but the DPI buttons have been shifted a bit, with one of them now being thumb-accessible, and the repositioning is actually a great improvement. I feel like the biggest change is just one of looks, with a pretty big shift in style - but not in feel. A decade on, and I’m still using that mouse, so durability has held up - although, the wheel has started to become slightly unreliable at times, missing a scroll tick now and then. Oh, there’s one other issue I can think of: the stupid built-in “RGB” (in quotes because there’s no RG, only B), can’t actually be turned all the way off - only lowered to a very, very low setting. You probably wont spot that it’s not off in daylight, and in the dark the light is still so dim that you don’t notice it out the corner of your eye, thankfully. Still, should be able to turn it OFF.
Would I recommend it? I’ve been really happy with it overall, and it saved my MX5xx-addicted ass from having to go cold turkey. But don’t go paying some kind of overprice for it - it’s a really solid, MX518-alike older model mouse, but not a literal miracle. I used to swear by Logitech, but reality is that there are other brands that could be just as good fits. The last mouse and keyboard my wife got were from Corsair, and I gotta say, they have been an absolute pleasure to use. Enough so that, even after 25 years of exclusively using Logitech mice and keyboards, if my peripherals broke down today, and I had to get new ones, then I would probably be liable to go for Corsair, and at least consider a variety of options from different brands.
Oh, what a wonderful review! Thanks for that! Yes, there was an MX500, my first ever real mouse. I’ve bought it with my own money as a teenager, and coming from a poor background within the society where it was real hard to even find any job, that was very expensive, to pay like $50 for a mouse. My previous A4-Tech something mouse was ten times cheaper and I couldn’t play Quake with it, any quick turn would make it lag significantly. With MX500, I became a pro player with almost nobody playing better than me. (Not only because of the mouse.) I haven’t won any prizes to compensate for the mouse, but I’ve been using it for a really long time, and I still have it by the way. The left button doesn’t work, but I just hope I’d fix it one day (I don’t know how yet, but I hope I need to change some clicker or something like that). That mouse is of sentimental value for me now. I don’t have many other sentimental things in my life actually. Perhaps just that mouse, considering I migrated countries a couple of times. I wasn’t aware this mouse was of a value, I’ve been bringing it with me, even though it was broken. Now, I’m happy I have it though.
A school friend, he had a 510, it was blue. And much lighter than a 500. I was ready to buy one, when I was looking for a replacement, but I couldn’t find neither 500, nor 510, nor 518. So, thanks for mentioning the new model, I’d search for it. Right now, I have a few Razer mice, specifically Naga and Death Adder. Both I like, yet they aren’t in a good shape, the Death Adder left button is broken too. But this time only because I bought it used. It served me for like 5 years. So considering the price … I’m happy about it. A guy sold it, telling me he had issues with games, so he was selling it to stop playing too much, and focusing on studying instead. I wasn’t playing any longer, but I preferred to use a used gamers mouse, instead of a new cheap office mouse.
Still got mine for my travel kit when working remote, going hard since 2006.
I’d love a Bluetooth conversion kit somehow… If anybody knows what I need please comment.
