Le tour partait plutôt bien avec une première ascension douce pour rejoindre le point de crête qui me fera redescendre sur le versant nord, offrant un magnifique point de vue sur le chateau de Montferrand puis le causse de l’Hortus

🧵 2/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Le versant nord est très à l’ombre et offre beaucoup de verdure et d’humidité. Un peu beaucoup parfois, je patauge rapidement dans la boue, la région ayant été copieusement arrosée dernièrement… La roche est glissante et il faut faire attention, mais je suis chaussé de chaussure minimalistes à semelle cramponnée. On verra plus tard que le minimalisme atteint cependant vite ses limites dans d’autres type de conditions 😅

🧵 3/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Je progresse en sous-bois puis sur un balcon offrant des vue magnifiques sur les contrebas avant de rejoindre à nouveau le soleil et la tour de Cazevieille. Je suis à l'extrémité ouest du parcours, jusqu'ici c'était très facile et je m'imagine aisément rejoindre mon point de départ dans le même temps qu'il m'a fallu pour arriver jusqu'ici ici. Spoiler : hahahahahaha.

🧵 4/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Le chemin devient raide et très rocailleux, la roche coupante met à mal ma chausse légère et mes mains que je dois poser ici et là pour me hisser, sans parler des chênes verts qui me griffent dès qu’ils peuvent. Je commence à comprendre que ma progression sera beaucoup plus lente que prévu et que l'évaluation de la difficulté du parcours par Komoot est dans les choux complet… mais la vue sur le pic et l’Hortus valent néanmoins le détour

🧵 5/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Je peste contre le balisage quasi absent sur le parcours, un point de peinture jaune ici et là mais ça mériterait mieux. Je parle même pas de l'entretien du sentier complètement envahi par la végétation. Ça donne envie de revenir avec un sécateur. Je verrais également bien quelques équipements pour faciliter certains passages vertigineux histoire de les sécuriser. Ouais j'en demande trop, c'est mon style. Au-delà de ça, les vues sont sublimes

🧵 6/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Les crêtes, c'est chouette™, mais parfois bien flippant quand même. Faut pas avoir le vertige. Je pensais que je l'avais pas, et en fait, ben si un tout petit peu quand même. La vue offerte sur l’horizon à la lumière d’une fin d’après midi, chaude et dorée, est sublime. Le balisage indique parfois de se jeter dans le vide ou pas loin… Mes chaussures légères au maintien de la cheville inexistant commencent à trouver leurs limites 😅

🧵 7/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Je me rapproche lentement et pas sûrement du tout du sommet du pic et sa croix iconique. Je réalise déjà que la redescente se fera de nuit, dans des conditions que j'imagine déjà horrible… et je serai pas déçu 🥲 Mais pour l'heure j'essaye de profiter au maximum de la lumière fantastique en serrant les fesses

🧵 8/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Je passe la croix mais ne m’y apesantis pas car une bande de jeunes y écoute du maître gims à fond et je dois tracer pour éviter la nuit (spoiler: fail)

C'est flippant et somptueux à la fois : c'est fliptueux.

🧵 9/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

Je croise une famille de chèvres sauvages qui a l'air encore plus intriguée de me trouver ici que moi, ce qui met la barre assez haut je vous cache pas. Je suis à la frontale dans une descente qu'on va appeler "mur" pour plus de commodité et de réalité, je positionne mes pieds douloureux au millimètre. Je me perds plusieurs fois du fait de l'absence de balisage et de mes repères sensoriels altérés par le manque de vision périphérique 💀

🧵 10/x #randonnée #hiking #rando #balade #mercikomoot

As GNOME gets ready to strike, KDE appears to start studdering... What is going on over there?? Is that the KDE baloo file indexer starting up? Oh no! A perfect connect as KDE falls to the ground!!

Oh what's this - GNOME seems to be standing there idle. Did the boxing task get backgrounded? Heaven knows it's impossible to find the running programs on GNOME. KDE and GNOME are both tabbed out of the boxing window!

Let's take a look into the crowd.. MacOS seems to have left the building to refresh it's permissions, and Windows is still booting up the programs that all self updated post restart. XFCE is hanging out in the corner but is all out of sync due to poor refresh rates on X11. Hyperland seems to be bullying someone in the bleachers, but it's hard to see exactly what's going on there..

Ding ding ding

Looks like KDE is out! Baloo didn't finish in time for KDE to get up. Let's see what happens in round 2!

Initially, I was drawn to KDE Plasma for familiarity. Therefore, when installing Linux for the first time, I chose a distro with KDE Plasma. Which happened to be Fedora Kinoite 35, a very new distro at the time. It was clearly buggy and after fiddling with it for some time, I just had to rebase to Silverblue (and GNOME) for the lack of alternatives.

Thankfully, I actually happened to really like GNOME. This was on a laptop and GNOME's touchpad gestures just felt very satisfying and intuitive; much better than anything else I had experienced before. Its (intended) workflow also made a lot of sense that way.

GNOME has really grown on me ever since. And while I've revisited KDE Plasma to see what I was supposedly missing out on, I simply stuck to GNOME as it felt cleaner and more elegant.

Linux desktop environments is the Trans rights of politics. Very easy to debate, everyone has an opinion, but not where the focus should be

Turns on reply notifications and sticks phone in butt

My standard position is that GNOME is good, if you want to just use an existing workflow, whereas KDE is good, if you're looking to create your own workflow or you're fine with a mediocre, familiar (Windows-like) workflow.

But unfortunately, GNOME is really disappointing in some ways. Every so often, we have someone at work unfortunately using it, because it's the default, and they always run into the same nonsense, like not being able to type a file path into the file manager, or not being able to give a name to the file they're trying to save. These are pretty bad problems that normal users are quick to encounter. It's a mystery to me, why these can't be fixed, but ultimately I just tell people to install KDE and they've all been happy about it.

I only have experience with Gnome out of the two but I haven't had the urge to switch yet. I like the look of it (I like that it looks different to Windows), the simplicity and the customisation with extensions (only a few and small ones, I recently started using OpenBar for some customization but I could do without). I keep my system rather minimal and I am not looking to put a lot of time into theming or customization.

I also tried Cosmic and I like the tiling aspect of it, but I also don't feel the need to switch. Maybe once it is released and I can figure out how to install it on Aeon.

KDE.

I won't use gnome (I've mentioned elsewhere), and unsurprisingly I just dont like it either. The design choices are restrictive, the environment is oversimplified - its just not for me.

Ive used lots of DEs over the years, even fvwm95 (the original, its neat that some folks have updated it though), and at this point if its a desktop its getting KDE.

KDE no doubt. GNOME is a minimalist that depends on extensions to provide basic functionality, while also being a giant fatass. KDE works from the install, provides a sensible workflow, and has better tools.

But I'd only use KDE on a rolling release or a 6 month release schedule distro. Their approach to development really doesn't suit stable ones.

GNOME is pretty but KDE works.

"Works" as in does what I expect from a desktop without deciding over my head that I should rethink my forty years of accumulated desktop experience without any discernible benefit to it.

Changed to Cinnamon (Linux Mint) after GNOME 3 and Ubuntu's Unity went bonkers, then changed to KDE Plasma some years ago.

I think KDE is constantly working to improve the desktop paradigm. GNOME tried to change the paradigm... I didn't like what I saw. I'm too old to learn new tricks.

kde without a doubt. I tried so many times to get into gnome,even using fedora and always failed after a couple of days and went back to plasma.

I just accepted it in the end and stopped even caring that gnome exists. Competition is good though and I do hope gnome keeps going.

personally i find gnome to be kinda weird to use and kde has been so completely crippled with bugs and performance issues every time i have given it a shot (may be a skill issue on my end), that i still have to vote for gnome.

cinnamon ftw.

i still prefer plasma over gnome, but my sorta controversial opinion on the matter is that gnome 3 was way better than gnome 2. gnome 2 was boring, ugly, using it felt like a chore and frankly not much simpler than kde at the time. gnome 3 tried to create something new and unique and i have huge respect of them for that. it was also much, much more pleasant to use than its predecessor. but it still isn't better than plasma. the only time in my opinion that gnome was a preferable option to kde was during the early kde 4 dark ages, which was a necessary transition, but it was terrible regardless

tl;dr gnome >=3 still isn't better than plasma, but it was a step in the right direction bc gnome 2 was way worse

I love gnome's design a lot and I want to use it so badly but for whatever reason it crashes on my PC if I game. Entire DE just closes and I'm back to the login screen. I thought it was just some weird Nvidia bug but same thing happenes on my AMD card.

The issue is the vram will fill up from gaming and both cards I have only have 4GB of VRAM.

However KDE doesn't crash once the VRAM fills up. I don't understand why or how the DE is affecting VRAM management but on KDE it'll start using my ram and that'll fill up a good bit. Game will slow down to a crawl but hey at least it doesn't crash.

I prefer Gnome on laptops. It had the best setup for laptops.

I prefer Plasma on desktop. It has better support for modern gaming features.

I think gnome used to be fantastic but sadly lost their edge over time. I love plasma but it is still a bit too unstable for my liking.

Personally use Hyprland nowadays and I think I’ll never go back to using a DE anyways