| ▲ | CamperBob2 an hour ago |
| How do I bring your app to the foreground if I can't see an icon anywhere? I just installed Ubuntu for the first time a few weeks ago and genuinely don't see how people are supposed to use it, coming from a Windows/Mac background. How does a Linux user know what's running, without going to a terminal and running top? The lack of desktop UI affordances in the leading "user-friendly" Linux distribution should be seen as a five-alarm fire by anyone interested in promoting wider Linux acceptance on the desktop. There are reasons why Linux can't get past low single-digit adoption no matter how badly Apple and Microsoft screw their users, and I'm sure the half-assed desktop UI is one of them. |
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| ▲ | WD-42 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Did you try pressing the super key |
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| ▲ | bigyabai an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > How do I bring your app to the foreground if I can't see an icon anywhere? On GNOME? Alt-tab, super overview, or click the dock icon. It's literally not any more complex than multitasking on an iPad. |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's literally not any more complex than multitasking on an iPad. That point would hold some water if the iPad were intended as a first-class multitasking platform, like a desktop OS. I don't know what the 'super' key in GNOME is, and don't much care, because if that kind of thing isn't obvious it might as well not exist. Having never used *nix on a graphical desktop before, I'm just blown away by how primitive the experience is. Fortunately Claude Code was happy to install dash-to-panel for me when I asked it what the deal was with this particular flavor of airline food. | | |
| ▲ | antonvs 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | You might be happier with a consumer OS. | |
| ▲ | WD-42 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Oh please. The super key is the windows key. You come across as someone who has never used a computer before. | | | |
| ▲ | bigyabai an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I don't know what the 'super' key in GNOME is, and don't care This is like having someone tell you that they refuse to use an iPad because the home button confuses them. That's your choice. I've used GNOME professionally for 7 years now, and I've taught kids to use it at robotics workshops. If you can believe it, many of them are unable to use macOS and Windows at all, because their school districts don't buy them laptops anymore. I'm sorry that GNOME isn't a carbon copy of your favorite OS, but it's not hard to use whatsoever. |
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