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

  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    Art is a valid use-case for tablets, and actually the best one. For almost all of corporate office jobs however, tablets are a worse proposition than a regular workstation. Most people type more than they draw.

    It’s fine, but that means that Windows 10’s “UI optimized for KB/Mouse with accessibility features for touch screens” was, in retrospect, the better choice all along. Windows 8 did the opposite and made the experience worse for everyone under the completely incorrect assumption that we were ALL going into a touchscreen-first world.

    • 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.