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GNOME Mess is Not an Accident​

GNOME accomplishes what seems to be impossible: it’s the most limited and bloated desktop environment for Linux. But that’s not accidental. It’s the result of the arrogance and amateurism of its main developers, making the design decisions of GNOME a masterpiece of chaos. To better understand what’s happening, let’s analyze some examples on top of what we have already discussed [1] in the previous articles [2]. Even if none of the following directly affects you, it’s worth understanding the modus operandi behind GNOME projects and how they offend the Linux community.
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I fucking hate GUH-NOME so much.
 
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419 said:

GNOME Mess is Not an Accident​


I fucking hate GUH-NOME so much.
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lmao how is this real
 
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Betonhaus said:
90% of desktop environments exist for the sole reason that gnome devs refuse to include features that make the os much more useful, and actively block the use of mods to add those features.
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It reminds me of that Brodie video about the basic colors for customization on Linux where every DE agreed on the name and the color code except the Gnome devs.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
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The absolute state of Gnome, please refer to one of my posts in this very thread, yadda yadda yadda... I am glad that I do not care about Gnome so that I can take the piss out of this fisher-price "Mac OSX" lookin ass :story:
Total GTK/GNOME Death
Betonhaus said:
Open source projects also have the problem of programmers choosing to write a project from scratch instead of contributing to an existing project that is only lacking in the one thing that the from scratch project excels at. For example I've found that Jellyfin is pretty much the best way to access my ebooks from my phone and computers while retaining read progress, but the eReader is incredibly bare bones and missing many nice to have features. There exists several web-based eReader programs that are only being worked on by one developer and is missing a bunch of core functionality, but has the nice to have features like page numbers and better navigation that Jellyfin lacks. If one would stop focusing on their project and work on contributing to the Jellyfin project, they could make an overall feature complete project even better
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Refer to the CADT model of software development.
 
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Marvin said:
Jwz is such a terrible faggot politically, but when he's right about something technical, he's fantastically right. I read the writings on his site for years.
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lol jwz calls GNU Emacs "stallmacs"
khaine said:
You should use punch cards, which is what the one true god intended. Not the false idol of the command line.
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ZMOT said:
he doesn't punch his cards smh
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del_toid said:
Overall it's been really neat and I'm glad I put in the effort to get it set up. I have an old-ish laptop that I'll be making into a dedicated Linux machine :)
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Look into selfhosting! Use that old laptop as home server.
 
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So guys....

I've been noticing that this Linux Mint install on this laptop has been... slower than it used to be. Like just now I was trying to type a blog post and there would be lag before the letters appear. Back in the day, it was all fast and instantaneous.

To be honest though, I'm not sure if this is a linux problem or something that only starts when I load up Chromium. Either way though... I remember on Windows there would be a cache or something I would occasionally need to clear because it would get filled with crap that slows it down, but does Linux have something similar?
 
I am probably late for this discussion but doesn't Adobe literally strongarm, gatekeep, threaten, sue, gaslight and girlboss the competition to Photoshop at every turn to keep their place as the king of photo editing software? Like, patenting the features so competitors can't offer the same shit (which is why GIMP doesn't have some tools and needs to have stupid workarounds), making it so you can't open the files properly without their software, the fuckery with those jews who literally claim to own the fucking electromagnetic spectrum at Pantone to make it so you can't have the color unless you pay them, and so on?

Easy to be the best when you make competition illegal.

Also Inshallah death to Gnome, fucking thing looks horrendous. Like someone trying to copy MacOs without understanding anything that made that GUI decent.
 
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Ayana Otonashi said:
I want to thank openSUSE Tumbleweed for saving my ass from losing my computer
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After I broke my arch install trying to get beta drivers to fix an issue I had a few months ago (latest Nvidia driver seems to have the bug fix in the notes section), I finally got a good decent setup with openSUSE Tumbleweed. Overall I quite enjoy how it runs and that it seems to be a bleeding edge version of Fedora in a way (Arch is great, but I just can't into not fucking it up somehow). The default snapshot setup in openSUSE is a godsend for me and my luck.

I tried Nobara and Fedora, but I had issues with fractional scaling and getting Steam to properly support it, plus I had issues with trying to only use x11 vs a mix of it with wayland.
I would prefer to use straight up Debian, but each time I tried to install Debian on my system, the screen would flicker (might have been related to the Nvidia driver issue) badly and other times the boot up would just be broken halfway through. I may try the next Debian major release in a few years and just dual boot both openSUSE (for games and some software stuff) and Debian (for media collection and general usage).
General Emílio Médici said:
I am probably late for this discussion but doesn't Adobe literally strongarm, gatekeep, threaten, sue, gaslight and girlboss the competition to Photoshop at every turn to keep their place as the king of photo editing software?
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Adobe is one of the digital satans, along with Oracle iirc. Granted it's sometimes easier to use photoshop (buddy of mine runs a 10 year old pirated version of photoshop for some things via WINE).
I'm a GNOME-fag, I prefer the navigation platform of it; I'll admit that KDE Plasma is quite cool for when I've tried it, however I still do not fully trust Wayland to run properly with the Nvidia drivers in the current state (it has greatly improved over the past few years and should continue to get better).
As an added note: I fucking hate the screen shot taker on GNOME, why can't it be done the same way as Plasma or, allah forgive me, modern Windows?
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
I'd love to know what the actual stats are. Certainly the "women" outnumber the actual women several times over.
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Willing to bet its upwards of 80%. Probably fluctuates depending on the actual roles. So something like 60% troons in more public facing or management roles, and 95% in actual tech roles.
 
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GoysGoneWild said:
Willing to bet its upwards of 80%. Probably fluctuates depending on the actual roles. So something like 60% troons in more public facing or management roles, and 95% in actual tech roles.
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Plus it depends on the language:
  • Python / R - potentially could be a woman
  • C - probably not
  • Assembly - almost certainly not
  • Non-x86 assembly - definitely not
  • Rust - welcome to Stinkditchville
 
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