I already see the commends and only have one question, why are Linux users so fucking dum? countless people enjoy KDE, countless enjoy Gnome and others prefer Cinnamon or Pantheon, can't we agree to say which we like/don't like whenever it's relevant rather than trash on the other DEs every time the name pops up?...
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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true, they need to shut up and accept that people have different use cases
Gnome is the default on many important distro, but it is not flexible. A default DE has to fit to most people.
Most people just want a browser and a word processor plus simple spreadsheets once in a blue moon. For extremely simple and popular use cases many distros already work okayish OOTB, including those with GNOME DE.
While I absolutely don’t like GNOME and its design principles (prefer KDE), but I can see why it works for many people.
Now, for anything but the most popular use cases, that’s a whole different story altogether. I just spent the whole weekend installing and reinstalling every imaginable flavour or Arch and OpenSUSE and trying to get Hyprland or KDE to work on my NVIDIA gpu without issues and failing, then trying to stop my screen from flickering like a drowning sailor desperately trying to Morse code and SOS while on Alder Lake iGPU, and failed too. Two hours ago I wiped for what seemed like the 420th time and went crawling back to W11.
The way I see it, gnome is friendly enough to use that new users who don't care about its flexibility will continue using it without issues while people who are bothered by the lack of flexibility are knowledgeable enough to change their DE or install a spin of the distro with their favourite DE
I can't be the only one who couldn't care less about Epiphany. I have zero faith behind a completely random browser that's just made on the side. What's the point, who is it for? Firefox beats it on like every use case scenario. Waste of dev time imo.
They think for open web, like what KHTML did in the past. Ends up being safari
While GNOME 44.3 was skipped for some reason
Skipped by who? I'm running 44.3 right now
Edit: it was a tagged release on their gitlab too
Maybe he meant his distro skipped it. I'm also on the latest. :)
Why is the image showing a non official panel ? Have they added that as an option?
To have that layout, I have installed several extensions. Will I need no extensions to achieve that result in GNOME 44.4?
Or is this some random pic that they grabbed without thinking about it?
Yes yes that all goo and what but does this mean the file pick will finally show thumbnails, and will that feature roll out distros?