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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlHow important is a DE to you?
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    5 days ago

    Gnome is soooo annoying. You can’t customize anything without “tweaks” that barely work.

    I definitely prefer the customization of KDE.

    I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact.

    Yeah I often wonder about this too. I think that the package manager is another major factor. But I think I might be happy with any distro running KDE. I’ve gotta get outside my Debian bubble to see.






  • the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes.

    I dunno what you’re doing but… When you resize text, you usually want to select the text and increase the font size. Sometimes you can render to vector and resize that. But if you resize the text as pixels, then it’ll probably look bad. Generally I try not to render text to pixels or do that last if necessary.










  • I’ve got an older laptop running Debian with Kodi. I affixed it to the wall behind my main TV. It was definitely a chore to setup Kodi how I like it, but now I love it.

    • Ads blocked on YouTube.
    • IPTV included - I have Pluto channels plus 100-200 random channels found online. It can get complicated with EPGs, but I wrote some scripts for cron to update.
    • I use Qbittorrent for downloading. It’s a separate program but it’s great and the downloads are included in Kodi automatically.
    • I never used PlexJellyFin. I don’t know why that would be one addon. I’ve used the Plex addon and it works fine… Ultimately I just moved my files to Kodi laptop so I don’t use Plex anymore. Similarly I’m not sure why anybody would use JellyFin and Kodi at the same time.
    • I’m pretty sure there are addons for Netflix and Prime but I haven’t used them. It seems like the Netflix addon is pretty legit at least.
    • Weather - Kodi as a cool weather setup.
    • Music - Kodi is great for personal library as well as many addons.
    • Remore - I use a FLIRC with a GE universal remote. It works great.