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  • There are some very convincing Windows themes. Gnome, too. There are a couple to make it look exactly like the IRIX theme, or CDE.
    Personally, I think the default layout is plenty simple. You press the applications icon, you press on the thing you want, that thing opens.
    If you can take twenty seconds to set it up for them, run everything they’ll ever want to run, right-click on it in the task bar, click Pin to Task Manager.
    Then all they’ll ever need to do is poke the one they want to run and it runs.
    KDE also has a Mobile DE called Plasma Mobile. Looks like it can be installed on desktops and laptops too.

















  • Huh. I don’t know enough about Flatpak, I guess repo owners get to make that call? Do Flatpaks have a preinst equivalent? Could you theoretically have an empty Flatpak that installs snaps at a system level? I guess it would need explicit permission to write to the filesystem, which kinda seems to be the opposite of the purpose of Flatpak.
    And like, even if that is possible, the Flathub maintainers would probably reject it on principle. So I’m imagining CanHub with an extra step in the installation instructions that gets you to pipe a curl’d script into sh, at which point, what’s the point?