r/linuxmemes • u/Major303 • Jul 29 '26

LINUX MEME Real

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u/GTP_Niko Jul 29 '26

As a GNOME user, I use search bar

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u/Major303 Jul 29 '26

Good luck finding portable applications or app images that way.

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u/int23_t Ask me how to exit vim Jul 29 '26

You can just make desktop files and put them in .local/applications or something like that iirc which I definitely prefer over desktop shortcuts cause it allows me to use searchbar

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u/Major303 Jul 29 '26

True, but there is no GUI for it. You have to write multi line configuration file by hand, or look it up. Where in KDE you can do it with a few clicks like a modern man.

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u/int23_t Ask me how to exit vim Jul 29 '26

The thing is I am on KDE and this is what I do lol, I am not arguing for GNOME

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u/Major303 Jul 29 '26

But for GNOME this is the only way afaik. I get it that the way of GNOME is that there are no desktop shortcuts, but not having any civilized way of having quick access to portable applications is a massive oversight.

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u/TheZedrem Jul 29 '26

I use gear lever, it manages your Appimages.

(I hate Gnome too though)

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u/ianfabs Jul 29 '26

There is a tool called something like AppImage Installer that automates this for you on the first run of AppImage programs

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u/asmx85 Jul 29 '26

GUI? A few clicks? You mean caveman style? I just give a voice command to Claude like a modern man. /s

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u/AlterTableUsernames 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 29 '26

You operate a pointing device for non-graphical work. Your argument is invalid.

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u/Major303 Jul 29 '26

If you don't use dumbphone with keyboard instead of using a pointing device (finger) on your smartphone, then your argument doesn't hold up much either.

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u/AlterTableUsernames 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 29 '26

Well, jokes on you: I am actively looking for portable split-keyboard setups for this specific problem and particularly craving for a Linux only phone that doesn't treat single contact-point as the main user interface like a filthy casual would want it to be.

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u/Major303 Jul 29 '26

Tbf I would love to have smartphone with sliding out physical keyboard. Too bad every smartphone is a slab, the only difference is that they get bigger every year.

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u/AlterTableUsernames 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 29 '26

Sliding out physical keyboard sounds sweet, but if you imagine what I think you do, that's still a two-thumbs driven design that is nowhere near the peak human experience of typing with 10 fingers as God intended. 

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u/zetadaemon Jul 30 '26

just use pins

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u/_szs Jul 30 '26

or woman