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In my entire life (and as context my earliest experiences with a PC predate the first consumer-available apple computer) there has not been a single time where I have felt the phrase "only Apple can achieve" to be worthy of anything other than a snort.
Apple's unshakable confidence that everything they do is earth shattering is overlapping heavily with that mediocre white man saying these days.
I will say though that I never thought I'd live to see the day where an Apple laptop is the best bang for the buck laptop. If you can grab a M1 macbook refurbished with warranty (places like best buy in canada or back market in the US will offer warranty on refurbished laptops) it is very likely the best bang for your buck laptop.
I got one myself an I have to say, the M1 and likely the other M series laptops are insane. The battery life is nuts and the performance is unlike any non-M series laptop I've used. It feels even snappier than a 2024 Asus G14, a laptop that costs double the M1's price.
Then you get to the hardware and the entire laptop just feels so well designed. I really hate that there is this much of a gap between Apple laptops and everything else.
I have to give credit to Apple here for absolutely demolishing the laptop market.
Yeah, I felt the same when I bought my old iPad (as I needed a good pen for writing)
No screenshots?
That's pretty neat, but I don't see how that's useful.
I spent about a decade as a KDE developer.
KDE has this mindset where if someone wants to implement something they think is cool, and the code is clean and mostly bug free, well -- have at it! Ever wonder why there's 300 options for everything?
Usually (because there's a bunch of people trying to optimize the core for speed and load times and such) this also means that the unused code-paths are required to not contribute negatively to things like load times. So a plugin like this that doesn't get loaded by default unless enabled, and thus doesn't harm everyone else's performance. It also means that if it stops working in the future and starts to bitrot, it can be dropped without affecting the core code.
@troyunrau @cyborganism brother, if I didn't want 348472759362 options In my Desktop Environment, I'd use GNOME, which only had 3 options.
Fortunately, variety and choice are good for the ecosystem, so it's nice to have both over-flexible (#KDE♥️), overly-rigid (#GNOME ♥️ on phones and tablets), and every in between (#XFCE4, #Cinnamon, #cosmic, #lxde, et al, ♥️)
May the UX/UI gods bless all of them, honestly.
I actually like that Gnome has less configurable things. You get the same desktop experience across the board on every PC. If only that desktop experience didn't suck and we didn't have to use a ton of extensions to make it usable.
That's why I love Gnome 2. It was the sweet spot.
Who said it's useful? It's certainly cool and it makes Apple look like a chump, so that's a win in my book
LoL! Good point
That's with every setting dialed to maximum. As a more subtle effect, distortion can do a lot to set off a window without using opaque colors.
It's only useful if you are looking for the polar opposite of Win95.
Still no screenshots tho :(
Its an animated effect so a static screenshot wouldn't really be able to show the effect.
Apple have already back peddled on their "Liquid Glass" design because people (I assume mostly redditors) were whining about it looking "dated".
So there's a change some talented people in the Linux space could pull it off even better than Apple!
Think I'll still stick with my glossy Win7-era dark mode KDE theme for now though.
what all do you use for it? I'm trying to do basically the same thing with klassy, forceblur, and a custom color scheme.
I use Seven Black and Volatile.
I used to have a theme closer to Windows 7 but I decided to deviate since wanted something that looked better in a dark theme than an exact clone of Win7. So I'm currently running Avalon as my icon set.
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. The wobble window effect got me onto Mandrake back in the 90s. I really wish I could apply the effect in cosmic.
i use the desktop effect this is talking about, if you're trying to do any kind of window transparency I would recommend it. its a lot better and more configurable than the default blur.
We can do better glass effects that apples awful liquid ass design
I'm new to KDE, long time GNOME user.
This effect, will I have to install it from the plugin store? Or, once merged, will it appear in the kwin plugin section of settings I presume?
Click-bait title. 👎 It's a plugin for KWin. Here is the Pull Request, includes a video: https://github.com/taj-ny/kwin-effects-forceblur/pull/235
