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New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment
mescobal writes: A new release of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is out. TDE is "a computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers" which translates into a fully functional KDE 3 style Desktop. Something is missing in the new generation of desktop environments, since some people (perhaps more than "some") feel at home with Gnome 2 or KDE i3. They have repositories for Debian and Ubuntu-based distros. I'm now using it on Ubuntu 15.04, amazed about how well-planned things were in the previous generation of DE. We may have gained some things with Gnome 3 and Plasma 5, but we lost a lot of good features too. TDE brings them back.
It's an interesting twist that Ubuntu killed any hopes of Linux on the desktop.
On the other hand, Macs keep on getting a little better every year.
You should have looked a tiny bit longer. Then you would have noticed that you can run one of a few hundred different window managers on Linux. What the distribution installer gives you as default is merely an example.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Why should I have to fight with package dependencies and fiddling with config files every time some clique of nerds decides one DE is better than another? It soon became tiresome. Now that I've been on OS X for 3+ years I've never looked back. Its DE doesn't throw the baby out with the bath water every 12 to 18 months.
OS X doesn't suffer from the 'mobilization' of the desktop. I use OS X on a daily basis and not one thing that's going on in iOS-land has adversely (or even noticeably!) affected my existence. Perhaps you could elaborate on what you mean?
How in the world will "mobile" go away? .... people are not going to return to physical keyboards anytime soon
Yes they are, or they have never abandoned them. Typing (as opposed to just looking and reading) is just awful on a touchscreen. Also, the fad for smallness is going away already. The marketing droids will represent keyboards to the next generation as a "new idea", as they did analog watches.
Its DE doesn't throw the baby out with the bath water every 12 to 18 months.
You only say that because you have only been using OS X for 3+ years (assuming the 3+ means less than 4). It's possible you haven't noticed because after only 3+ years, you aren't familiar enough with the Mac to notice when something goes missing.
Workspaces arbitrarily changed from a useful grid to mandatory linear layout. Ditching a working file search for Spotlight that only allowed results to be sorted based on name, kind or "last opened". Dropping features during a crusade to eliminate features requiring filesystem metadata then turning around and going full metadata without reimplementing the lost features. Replacing mDNSresponder with discoveryd for no good reason since discoveryd didn't work, the proof being that they switched it back a few updates later. All of a sudden refusing to display users' custom icons is another one.
If you stay on the Mac, you will find Apple is constantly throwing out the baby with the bathwater, replacing what works with what isn't ready and leaving users with no recourse because Apple only supports the most recent couple of OS X versions with security updates.