Windows 10 wasn’t even on my list as it is not a modern OS any more (it has been replaced by Windows 11), but even so it had a better UI, without those weird UI features that just serve to look bad

• floating taskbar at the bottom, not actually at the bottom, above it
• those blue highlights around widgets that do not look good
• that horrible off white colour for widgets
• general bad design

And of course windows 11 and GNOME improve with even more UI features

• blur
• transparency that actually looks good
• rounded corners that look good

Basically, it’s not one specific thing that makes KDE look bad, but rather their general approach to design, which seems to be ‘we don’t care what we’re doing, we’ll just set the default to something random as we expect users to customise it anyway’ which is fine for advanced users, but not so friendly to new users

It might be GNOME or it might be Windows 11 (although of the Linux ones it’s still GNOME), but KDE is clearly (subjectively) the most ‘programmer art’ of the 3

Maybe unintuitive is the wrong word, but for new users the amount of options can be overwhelming, and the UI looks… not very modern by default, lol

It’s a big abstract to understand, are you trying to say that there are Linux enthusiasts that protest GUIs being made simple and intuitive, and that if they succeed, would-be Linux users will go back to Windows, which is more intuitive?

Maybe for KDE, but just introduce new users to GNOME, that’s perfectly intuitive and even looks great!

Mastodon is corporate social media?

Is this an April Fools joke?

Lol

Why is the reply green like it’s from you, but the bubble is coming from the left side, which is their side, rather than your, right, side?

fhmy.net?

Honestly default GNOME is probably less confusing than this for old people, and even less confusing once you customise it a little.

Seriously, this is good effort! But anything based on XFCE or Plasma is going to look technical and confusing.

Hmm, ok, I tried that, and the command hung without logging anything to the terminal or terminating, and /mnt/jack101 ceased to be a folder, and became a binary file - one I didn’t have permission to access

aarvi@fedora:~$ rclone mount jack101: /mnt/jack101/ --network-mode

Sorry, I should have mentioned in the post: curl worked by itself, just not with curlftpfs. Someone else suggested using rclone, so I’m going to try that

Alright, I added the config, and could use an app such as Rclone shuttle to view the files, but at no point could I set a mount point and I’m still not sure how to do that.

Yeah, I tried without the mount point too, but I think that’s just the same as what Nautilus does. There is nothing under /run/user/1000/gvfs

aarvi@fedora:~$ gio mount ftp://jack101:correct%20password@oncilla.mythic-beasts.com /mnt/jack101
gio: file:///mnt/jack101: volume doesn’t implement mount
gio: ftp://jack101@oncilla.mythic-beasts.com/: Location is already mounted

I think it is already mounted, but under the annoying computer:/// virtual directory, not where I want it, and what does it mean by ‘volume doesn’t implement mount’?

Thanks, I tried that and it gave a different error

aarvi@fedora:~$ rclone mount ftp://jack101:correct%20password@oncilla.mythic-beasts.com /mnt/jack101 --network-mode
2025/03/19 14:59:22 NOTICE: Config file "/home/aarvi/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
2025/03/19 14:59:22 CRITICAL: Failed to create file system for "ftp://jack101:correct%20password@oncilla.mythic-beasts.com": didn't find section in config file

but I will try to fix it

Idk how to downgrade it, it doesn’t seem to be working

aarvi@fedora:~$ sudo dnf dg curl-8.8.0
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: curl-8.8.0
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
aarvi@fedora:~$ 

Yeah, might well be there’s an error with this version - 0.9.2/8.9.1

aarvi@fedora:~$ curlftpfs --version
curlftpfs 0.9.2 libcurl/8.9.1 fuse/2.9
aarvi@fedora:~$ curl --version
curl 8.9.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/8.9.1 OpenSSL/3.2.4 zlib/1.3.1.zlib-ng libidn2/2.3.8 nghttp2/1.62.1
Release-Date: 2024-07-31
Protocols: file ftp ftps http https ipfs ipns
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz SPNEGO SSL threadsafe UnixSockets

aarvi@fedora:~$ sudo dnf dg curl-8.7.1
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: curl-8.7.1
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
aarvi@fedora:~$ 

But it also doesn’t seem the old version is available for download…

Hmm, I did try that. It didn’t work, still same error.