• navigatron@beehaw.org
    9·
    8 months ago

    Is that a Thinkpad T420 😍 The last mode with the old-style keyboard, and all the doohickeys on the sides to fiddle with

    • PeWu@lemmy.ml
      4·
      8 months ago

      I’m also hunting for T420 as it has features that I crave. Unfortunately I’m a normalman among… everyone else, but I’m trying my best

      • navigatron@beehaw.org
        4·
        8 months ago

        If I knew how to post images I would. I bought mine freshman year of college. I hoofed it a mile and a half off campus to a gas station where a man in an N64 shirt sold it to me for a hundred bucks on the hood of his car. He was towing a small trailer and “leaving town”.

        The thing is a tank. I take out the dvd drive module and it feels like reloading. It has these slots and fidgety bits that I would take out and put back in while in class, and somehow none of them have broken.

        The hardware wifi switch did leave me dazed and confused for a few hours a few times.

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          8·
          8 months ago

          It’s the least configurable piece of software in the world, and it has the absolute worst defaults imaginable. It’s like they took all the worst parts of OSX, removed the little amount of configuration it had, and chose the ugliest possible colors.

          To get a normal task bar, one where you get 1 section per window, not groupped by app, you need a separate plugin https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel . And it’s not possible to only show the windows that are on the same monitor as the panel. And the “system tray” is so incredibly not configurable. For example, you need a separate “tweaks” package to get access to other basic functionality, but even that isn’t enough. There doesn’t seem to be any way of including the “year” in the clock on the system tray. In KDE I can configure it literally any way I want, or use one of the several included alternative widgets.

          Take the bluetooth system tray as well. It takes 4 clicks to get to a section where I can connect a device (a device it already knows about, not a new one). KDE you open the bluetooth tray and click “connect” on whichever one you want, easy. Gnome I have to open the system tray itself (since icons aren’t individually clickable), then click the “bluetooth” section, then “bluetooth settings”, which opens a full modal dialog, THEN click the device I want to connect (which opens another modal), then click “connect”. Absolutely absurd.

          That’s just some examples, but compared to KDE, which has every possible option you could ever even imagine, it’s just extremely frustrating.

          It’s also just ugly.