It would be more useful on windows than on linux too no?
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.
I recommend Mint. It’s basically ubuntu with the controversial stuff disabled (Canonical’s snaps mostly, but I guess also any ads for their pro services) and with an extra layer of polish.
I’m happy with it for both the “I want something that works reliably” reasons and the “I’m an engineer who wants a free system that I can control and modify” reasons.
thanks. gotta check it out.
Check out Mint or PopOS! over Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is falling behind in the desktop experience, as well as their insistence of using their proprietary backend for snaps over flatpaks, and overriding tools that you expect to get the flatpaks and causing trouble shooting issues because you are expecting one behavior but getting another (not that hard to work around or translate once you know, but still a hassle.
Also, Mint and PopOS! are just great experiences and were top contenders for my personal desktop (dev, gaming, power user) switch from Win10 -> Linux. I wound up going with Arch/Garuda because it’s forcing me to learn far more about Nix than I’ve learned as a dev. I still might make the switch since Garuda can become unstable occasionally due to the way that the OS is “bleeding edge”, and forces me to troubleshoot the causes (I guess this is what I wanted to learn?) instead of doing personal dev, gaming, or desktop entertainment.
Thank you! I will try out both on my personal computer.
Good news is I could install this without admin priveleges at work. Bad news is that while it can see my onedrive folder it behaves very badly with onedrive, click on a folder and it just dissappears. It did the same thing with Google drive as well. Since cloud is where all my data lives it’s not usable currently. =(
So can Okular, but recently how well it works on windows has been getting worse and worse.
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.
Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
I used to run blackbox on windows xp. It worked really well too.
One of my favorite creators, MichaelMJD made a Video about this.
I love you, maybe my work laptop will be tolerable now.
I thought this was a post about the Gamecube emulator. lol
Dolphin is the best file manager of all time. Both linux and windows.
Hmm darkmode doesn’t work. And it’s 615 MB on disk, is it an electron app lol
That’s because of Qt and the KDE frameworks. …Sorry those are a necessity! Though, if you installed other KDE apps now, they’d be like, 80 MiB per app!
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.
Nautilus is way better
Having had to set up a KDE install recently I really, really like Nautilus GUI better. A little less customizable/extensive but it’s so much cleaner.
My only real beef is having like 3 separate areas for options. Hamburger menu, then the dots in the address bar, etc.
Yeah I agree about the options fragmentation. But yes, exactly. KDE in general feels very messy visually and functionally to me.
Thunar >>>>>>>
Thunar is the best
Booo
Doesn’t have dark mode == useless
KDM users when they’re asked to toggle between infinite GTK themes instead of between “light” and “dark” themes.
I actually like the Windows file explorer. Used to be my favorite, before Dolphin. Nowadays I’d say Dolphin is slightly better overall, but could still use a change inspired by Windows or two. For instance, I really like the drive view on the Windows file explorer’s home page.
In the newest versions, idk about older ones, dolphin lists all attached drives with a progress bar to show how full they are on the left panel, not too different from what youre suggesting, just built into the sidebar instead of a “my computer” type page.
It’s nice, but I just really like the Windows’ design of this feature. Not really anything functionality-related. Honestly, I wish I could just have the file manager from Windows Vista or 7. I don’t even need tabs.
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.
Thunar = 🐐
Although, the only reason I use it is because when i made the switch many moons ago, i was following this guy’s tutorial on setting up i3 and he recommended thunar. Never looked back (although, at this point i think its more about the ui than any functional difference)
(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
Especially the android app was made by someone who really wants to use it because it has literally no way of closing it or preventing it from auto-starting
FOSS >> properitary🤮
