New Gnome Code of Conduct - It's pretty bad tbh

[Emperor Julian]

The whole thing seems to be an empty pr gesture which will backfire later on, all that has to occur is a raging misandrist or racist abusing their position of power against a non-marginalised subordinate and you've got a lawsuit/pr disaster on the your lap. Not to mention when you try to remove dickhead employee, because her lawyer is going to have a field day. So then you're going to be dealing with two legal cases rather than 1

To say nothing of the office culture you're setting up when you tacitly endorse racial abuse in certain context.

Also rule number 2 and 4 are really hazily written as well.

 

[Super Guido]

The whole thing seems to be an empty pr gesture which will backfire later on, all that has to occur is a raging misandrist or racist abusing their position of power against a non-marginalised subordinate and you've got a lawsuit/pr disaster on the your lap. Not to mention when you try to remove dickhead employee, because her lawyer is going to have a field day. So then you're going to be dealing with two legal cases rather than 1

To say nothing of the office culture you're setting up when you tacitly endorse racial abuse in certain context.

Also rule number 2 and 4 are really hazily written as well.

The stuff about drugs and booze gives me the impression they either can't handle the banter or have some straight-edge people on their team. Maybe even both.

With the fourth rule, it could easily become a he-said-she-said thing since they're including subtle stuff. I'm guessing there's no point where they'll say "you're being a fucking dumbass - stop getting offended just because they forgot you used 'she' pronouns and not 'they'." These kinds of people tend to get offended when someone forgets to check their profile description and just uses the generic 'they'.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Just use windows 7 lmao

 

[ditto]

Computers are getting faster but software developers are getting lazier and stupider.

Also the demand for software is continuing to increase and the things that program has to do is far more complex than even a decade ago.
To be a decent developer in the 90s you just needed to know Win32 or specialize in VB / Delphi.

This is why I love the Suckless philosophy.

Spending time around these minimalist software communities is refreshing, but ultimately incredibly limiting. Good and useful software is always going to be complex. Still waiting for the suckless forum software that isn't a mailing list.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

If you want stability, use Debian. If you want bleeding edge, use Arch. There's no point in using something else for consumer-use except to just try out.

I don't think that's necessarily true. There's some value in trying out distros without systemd, if only to get away from the RedHat hegemony and avoid inflating Poettering's sun-sized ego.

This is why I love the Suckless philosophy.

Delving too far into suckless either causes you to kill yourself (RIP in peace, Uriel), or to become a tranny (Francis Rowe).

 

[cumrobbery]

>linux is gay and dumb
Wow who knew

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I don't know why I was somehow hoping that identity politics being shoved into everything would somehow go away in 2020.

 

[Saint Regret]

You know, it's a shame the GLOBOHOMOMEGACORP reaches even my tiny Autistic little corner. Can't wait until they take Nautilus next.

 

[[Redacted]-san]

I don't know why I was somehow hoping that identity politics being shoved into everything would somehow go away in 2020.

I honestly thought idol would disappear as well. Man, being woke constantly isn't always good. Especially if an individual actively pushes their political gunk into everything that shouldn't belong in the first place.

 

[LocalFireDept]

How long is KDE gonna be safe bros...

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Probably a naive question, but since Linux is open source, can't people just agree on developing their own versions of Linux and branching off from the corporations?

Legally, and theoretically, yes. In practical terms, not fucking likely, as all this spastic flailing about codes of conduct shows.

 

[CatharticShitHead]

Linux fucking sucks.

Whoever's designing GNOME fucking sucks.
Moving on.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

I use Ubuntu, do I unwillingly support that GNOME bullshit ?

In short, does Ubuntu currently use GNOME in one way or another ?

In short, yes. It uses a shell over regular old GNOME 3.

If you wanted a version of Ubuntu that isn't fucking TERRIBLE, Install Linux Mint Cinnamon. Its user interface should be very familiar to anyone who has ever used Windows. Its Desktop Environment, Cinnamon, is based on a fork GNOME 3, which was created directly in response to GNOME 3 being fucking garbage. It takes all of the good parts of GNOME 3 (which were mostly holdovers of GNOME 2 anyway), and puts it into a much sleeker, better put together, package. The CoC has no purview over it. I personally use this, and without powerleveling, as I have really nothing personal on this system, I can show you my desktop:

The best part of Cinnamon is its personalization. You can change absolutely fucking everything about it with complete ease.



If you wanted, you could also install Linux Mint Mate, which is based on a fork of GNOME 2, and actually good piece of software that was made before GNOME became a tranny. It's about as good as Cinnamon, but the layout isn't quite as personalization-friendly, in my experience. The problem with Mate is that you may find it becomes outdated quicker than Cinnamon will, but the devs on the project are doing an excellent job, and it's made up of a team of the people who founded GNOME, and made it viable, versus the HR department that GNOME is now.

 

[Sidon's fleshlight]

This is why Ubuntu switched to Unity.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

I use Ubuntu, do I unwillingly support that GNOME bullshit ?

In short, does Ubuntu currently use GNOME in one way or another ?

Yes it does and no you don't, unless you are paypaling the macfag troons who are being protected by this ridiculous CoC.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

The only time I enjoyed using Linux was on Arch Linux with dwm as the window manager, everything else like Ubuntu made me feel like a poojeet who couldn't afford Windows.

Paying for Windows

 

[The Mat Harris]

Well done gnome dismissing all the normal people from developing for you.

I hope you manage to lose all your money on women's outreach programs like last time

The GNOME Foundation Is Running Short On Money - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

I use Ubuntu, do I unwillingly support that GNOME bullshit ?

In short, does Ubuntu currently use GNOME in one way or another ?

ubuntu by default comes with GNOME now. Not because they like it but because they want to focus more on server stuff.
They don't care much for the desktop as shown when they tried to kill off 32-bit multilib https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Drops-32-bit-x86

 

[James Edwin]

if you arent' using hannah montanna OS then you're a faggot

Home

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Linux fucking sucks.

DOS is the best OS anyway.

 

[Star Stuff]

TFW I use Gnome because I'm a simple brainlet who just wants to click and drag stuff because Windows refused to let me transfer my OS to the new HDD. I just wanna use my computer, fam. Why do we have to make that political too?

Someone up there mentioned using Cinnamon instead. How difficult is that to get off the ground? My code understanding ability is basically zilch if we don't count some super basic terminal shenanigans. I'm trying, Kiwis, big promise.