Because of some very old experiences, I had thought that KDE just didn't have the desktop for me, until I tried Plasma 5 in Linux Mint 18.2. I was blown away by the amount of configurability and convenience Plasma offered me right from the start. And them I discovered other KDE software - Amarok, Kate, Gwenview, Spectacle, KDE Connect - and thought "wow, I wish I knew about these a long time ago".

I do agree with @theKarlisK that Plasma is a bit 'overmenued' in places, and its codebase and libraries often seem complicated and troubled. Gnome Shell, on the other hand, I still find basically unusable.

@beganovichh you can disable all the animations in Plasma. Or some of them. You can turn off compositing, so you have a completely 2D, no frills desktop experience. That's the beauty of KDE software - it makes an effort to do things your way.

Nailed it, Sir.

Typical onStop() / onStart(), eh?

@sebastian msfag.exe detected

Spiders are awesome.

@aadilp When was the last time they actually cared about fixing bugs

Do they do that for Linux and macOS clients too?

@uziiuzair So basically you don't pay for the laptop, you pay for the nice looking store.

Buy a Mac. It just works!

Gotta love the 'gitlab' tag.

If there's a language I'd recommend to a complete noob wanting to learn programming... it's Java.

@dfox Alright, cool! Waiting for deployment then :D

@dfox That's nice to see. What about the avatar builder? Doesn't make much sense to me that it's only on mobile ;P

@pxgamer I have the app, but it's more often that I just click the bookmark in my desktop browser to read some rants. It always frustrates me a bit when a desktop/web version of something is missing some obvious functionality of its mobile counterpart, and vice versa.

@pxgamer @ScribeOfGoD Yep, I'm talking about the web version.

On the other hand... Isn't a workplace supposed to be open and cooperative? Aren't coworkers supposed to be trustworthy on that they won't mess with your stuff while you're away?

@Lel00 Yeah, YouTube's one of the bigger offenders. Although, in their defence, video only starts playing once the tab gains focus.
But I still use Magic Actions to stop all autoplay.

That's what Microshit gives you for trying to use their software and code for their platform.

"Fuck" - you mean "bleep bloop"?

Microsoft in a nutshell.

Literally my biggest nightmare. Would ++ this to Jupiter if I could.

Every time they do that I give them the lowest possible rating, and a mini-rant if they want me to elaborate.

Noob question here... What does a pointer change vs a reference?

@kerrermanisNL I believe you meant 'cosmic radiation' :P

W10 and Discord. No, we don't like it.

@mocintash Say that you just want to work with macOS, and I won't bat an eye. Saying that Macs are somehow objectively better (which obviously excludes personal preference and locked-in, proprietary software) is what I'm arguing against.

@mocintash What about it? You get the XPS, install Linux on it and get going. This is another reason why normal laptops are better.

@AngryDev For significantly less money you can get a Dell XPS 15 with a Core i7-6700HQ / 7700HQ, 16 or even 32 GB of RAM, a GTX 960M / 1050, 512GB / 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD, 4K touchscreen and similar battery life. And if you don't need graphics horsepower, there's the Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4 as well, just to name an example. These are devices as much or more (definitely more in case of the Thinkpad) durable than the MacBooks, they're slightly lighter, and they're upgradeable.

@AngryDev Please tell me, what model of MacBook you have and how much you paid for it, then I can find out the exact CPU and GPU models and actually look something up. From what I can tell, you must've bought it in the last year or so, in which case comparing it to a random outdated laptop with a 3rd gen Core processor is pretty pointless. My point with the Z580 was merely that it's more durable, rather than an all-around better laptop, not to mention it's been like 6 years since its debut.

@AngryDev Z580. What are those "very high end" specs you speak of? Also, are you implying that all well-specced non-Macs have 1 hour battery life because your old one did? Have you been following the notebook market at all in the recent years?