Hi everyone,

I’d like to have my apps as tiles within a full-screen view (ideally called via pressing the Windows button on the keyboard) in Linux, pretty much the Windows Metro look as seen above. I have all the icon files and just need to link them to the apps themselves. Might you know of a way to do that?

Thanks for your help! Temperche

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
    3·
    1 year ago

    I still consider Windows 10 to be worse for tablets than Windows 8.1. Windows 10 is better for 90% of computers, but the touch interface went through a regression when they refocused on kb/mouse.

    Tablet mode works well in recent versions of Windows, but that feels more like a layer on top of the OS rather than an integrated part of it like Windows 8(.1) felt like.

    In a perfect world, we would have the option to choose, but Microsoft doesn’t want to maintain multiple shells of course. As for desktop use, I would love to get Windows 7’s UI and privacy friendly design on top of Windows 11’s state-of-the-art kernel. I know nothing like that will ever happen, but I can dream…

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      Having a dedicated touchscreen shell is something that I believe GNOME and KDE are trying to achieve, but I don’t know whether they succeeded UX-wise as I’ve never used them.

      It’s unfortunate that Windows 10 was a regression for touchscreens, but if MS did not have the resources/willingness to support both well, then focusing on KB+M was the right call IMO. When building Windows 8 they simply miscalculated how relevant touchscreens would/could become for Windows in the 2010s.

      If you want privacy, Linux is definitely the only choice anymore. If you want privacy and a good UI, Linux may be a good choice depending on your tastes in UI. I think KDE does UI/UX right for your average power user while retaining most of Windows’ UI paradigms (which is why SteamOS uses it for its desktop mode). Ironically Microsoft has actually been stealing a lot of design cues from KDE, especially with Windows 11. The lock screen of Windows 11 in particular is a straight ripoff of KDE Plasma, every time I walk in front of a locked Windows computer I have to do a double take. The rounded corners, slight Gaussian blur, cute-yet-serious font, it’s all there.