Quoting: Mountain ManFrankly, I don't have a problem with randomly clicking around the desktop and unintentionally opening stuff, but based on your argument, nothing in a user interface should be accessible with a single click, and yet, it's standard to be able to open menu items with one click, or toggle a button in something like Libre Office with one click.

I don't think you really understood the argument.

It's cool that you are so perfect that you never make such an easy to make mistake, but for the rest of us, well...

Why do you think games ask you "Do you really want to overwrite/load/delete save X?" ?
Not because people would be too dumb to understand that clicking the load/delete/etc. button would actually load/delete/etc.
Not because people click around at random (but thanks for going "ur so stoopid randomly clicking around LOL").
Because it is normal that people trigger a single click on stuff without intending to. It just happens. Not often, obviously, but it does and it is annoying when it does.

For me it happens most often when I bump my mouse into something on the desk.

So when an action would be very disruptive (like accidentally opening a file) or even harmful and not easily undone and when basically every single action would be like that (such as interacting with folders and files in a file browser), then you make the default harder to trigger by accident.

When you navigate a browser or operate most menus, most single click actions are not like described above at all, so it is fine to have them activate by single click. The few that are disruptive can then be "caught" with these confirmations.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSingle click to open is the right way as far as I'm concerned. It just makes the most sense when you consider that the interface in every other piece of software you use on a computer only requires single clicks, so why should the desktop be the sole exception?

It is rather easy to accidentally do a single click.
Happens to me quite often.

Usually, nothing happens as the cursor isn't really on top of anything.
When that opens a link, it doesn't really matter, just go back quickly.
When that opens an entire program, that's a massive problem as it'll likely take focus away, might make the PC slower for a moment, forces you to close that program again, etc.

When you accidentally select something, that's not really a problem.
Accidentally double clicking is not something that really happens.

And what makes the most sense in practice is what most people are used to, not something that might or might not make sense in a bubble detached from that reality.
Especially when the difference in usage isn't that big (like the time difference of a double vs single click).

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Quoting: BogomipsAdd to that the fact that KSysGuard was nice and tidy, now you have so much real estate lost, when I monitor things I think the density of data visible in one go is important.

I'm not sure what about this isn't nice and tidy (also, yes, my PC is named ubertoaster ).
I mean, what I personally use it most for is checking/killing processes so I set the processes view to be the default when you open the program. And that view seems to be pretty much identical to ksysguard?

Quoting: BogomipsIn the mean time Psensor never had a problem to monitor anything.

Had a ton of problems for me and regularly kicked the bucket while the machine was running.
And that is across multple machines with different mixtures of AMD/Intel/Nvidia. And different distros, too.

To be honest, I don't even know what the widgets I currently use for displaying temps use, but it isn't psensor (the package is not installed).
But whatever it is, it has worked for me flawlessly so far.

Quoting: BogomipsPlus, in Plasma a lot of settings seem to come and go in the UI after every upgrade and you need to search in 5 different config files to put back your preferences.

Not my experience at all. Unless you count major version upgrades - in that case, some incompatibilities is kind of what you'd expect.
But I agree it would be nice if they put more effort into converting settings from older versions.

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Single click to select. Double click to open.
This is the way.

I'm sure they have statistics to know which one people use more often (or rather, how many people do that change immediately), so they'll simply have made that the default.

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A new distro?!

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I really enjoyed the two Turok remasters so far, so looking forward to this one.

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The search for obscure game entries online is always very entertaining detective work.

It's crazy how many 90s-early 2000s entries have been basically forgotten and just keep on reappearing because someone finds some old magazine or shareware CD with a bunch of random stuff on it.

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Yeah, no numpad, no buy.

But it does look cute.

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You cannot fix the egg without breaking its shell.

Or something like that.

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Quoting: ThibugAlready pre-ordered it on Fanatical (I know, pre-order bad).

Yes, pre-order bad.
But so far, FromSoft hasn't missed, so there's that.

I'm still waiting because I never played any Armored Core game, so I just don't know if it would be the kind of game I'd like.

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