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    3 months ago

    Note : I’ve barely used gnome in my life so it’s based on memes I’ve saw about gnome

    and it shows

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      3 months ago

      2 other responses I got confirmed that such thing happens and you say otherwise. Doesn’t Gnome breaks third party extensions that provides users basic functionality that should be in gnome in the first place but the devs don’t want to implement? Is the meme wrong?

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        3 months ago

        Not that guy but phrases like “basic functionality” are just hard to pin down. What you need for your workflow and can’t live without is probably irrelevant fluff to a whole other class of folks.

        I haven’t run into anything I need a third-party extension for yet, so I guess it works for some of us, although admittedly I do very few things on that machine so I could easily be missing something vital for most people.

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            3 months ago

            That was pretty effing funny.

            How much do you use your OS, though? I’d characterize it more as it works best by staying out of the way.

            I turn the computer on, load a game or an occasional productive application, and I don’t think about it any more than that. My only real interaction with it beyond picking some initial settings is super+search for the thing I actually want to interact with.

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              3 months ago

              I am using it for work (programming) and for games. Usually about 12 hours daily, except weekends.

              I liked GNOME shell until they managed to kill systray extensions for good. I didn’t want to fight it no more so I left.

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        3 months ago

        Is the meme wrong?

        Yes, it is.

        basic functionality that should be in gnome in the first place

        Who gets to decide what’s “basic” functionality? Each desktop’s team has their vision for what they want to implement. Something that might be basic to one person might not be in someone else’s vision or…

        the devs don’t want to implement

        …is being worked on but needs design. GNOME is design-oriented. It doesn’t matter how much you scream that something needs implementing if no one designs how that implementation will work and why it should be implemented in the first place. It’s not about “not wanting”, it’s about making sure that when something is implemented, that it’ll work well both now and in the future.

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            3 months ago

            I can’t think of a single thing about gnome that remotely resembles apple, outside of some UI patterns…

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              3 months ago

              Their whole attitude towards development is similar, down to not working with other dekstops and insisting on doing things the way that works best for them regardless if it’s worse for the linux ecosystem overall.

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          I guess congratulations on proving the point I made on my other post?

          Gnome’s attitude towards everything seems to be “$#¨$ you, like just actually go &%$# yourself. You do things our way or you use something else. We have decided these things are useless, if you think they are necessary you are a $&@# and %$#$ you and the horse you rode in on”

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              3 months ago

              Nah, GNOME is worse mostly because it’s the default on a ton of distros, so them having this attitude actively get’s in the way of cross-desktop development instead of just being annoying.