Okay jokes aside, GNOME has been a horrific shitshow for well over a decade now. Unfortunately the project is propped up by the likes of Red Hat/IBM so it's unlikely to die a deserved death anytime soon.
Yeah. I remember GNOME 3 being a cluster fuck when it came out. To the point where MATE and Cinnamon were created by distros that formerly used GNOME 2, so they didn't have to deal with GNOME 3
The +NIGGER License is a license modifier that requires the inclusion of the word "NIGGER" in the LICENSE file.
Why?
By including the word "NIGGER" in a LICENSE file that must be distributed with the software you will ensure:
The software will not be used or hosted by western corporations that promote censorship
The software will not be used or hosted by compromised individuals that promote censorship
Users of the software will be immune to attacks that would result in censorship of others
They missed an opportunity with that license; should have called it the "CRACKER/KIKE/NIGGER/CHINK" license. Fewer justifications for calling it racist.
I dug around to see myself, first glance, he has unpopular opinions and goes on autistic spergs about them. Fair enough then I started seeing things like "racist, MAGA, right-wing, nazi, conspiracy theorist, Trump." You know the normal leftist crap. Being that GNOME is perhaps the most infiltrated large open source project, there's the answer.
There's always been a not small subset of Linux desktops that really want to be a Mac and I've never understood why. Mac has always been a pain in the ass, but going way back there was always some "I'm a artíst, I only use Mac because my brain is superior you loathful PC scum." So I suspect it's from people wanting to join in that somehow.
My understanding is with Gnome 3 they went all in with the "here's our way, it's the best so do it this way only" method just like Apple does too.
why I switched to KDE. yeah, it's a bit resource-heavy compared to cinnamon or MATE, but I'm familiar with it, and my god man...gnome sucks harder than kamala trying to imitate a kirby vaccum...
Yeah, everyone points to resources, but I mean with no apps open I use about 2GB of RAM and a whopping 15GB of disk space on a fairly fresh install on a weak little mini PC. I love when things use less, but in the grand scheme of things 2GB of RAM is beyond trivial and resource wise it pales in comparison to Windows.
It wasn't that long ago that relatively pricey computers didn't even have the expansion slots to allow 2GB of RAM to be installed. KDE used to run just fine on those computers, once you disabled Nepomuk.
Installed a gnome distro VM a while back to do something and to launch a program you move the mouse to the upper left then back down to the bottom center.
That's like some kind of UI hate crime. Commodore Amiga had a better UI than this Gnome trash.
edit: he called out Gnome for hiring a self-proclaimed professional shaman as Executive Director.
There was a version of gnome3 that required you to actually swipe to unlock to get to the password prompt if your screen was locked. Even on a desktop, you had to press left mouse and swipe up. It only lasted very briefly and soon after they made it so pressing any key would show the prompt as well, but to this day I can't fathom what was going throufmgh the head of whoever implemented that. I'm sure the GNOME devs would love to keep it that way, too, but it was so dumb it was unacceptable to Red Hat.
That was the initial GNOME 3 release. By the time they fixed it, I had already switched to XFCE. They believed that desktops were obsolete, and that tablets and phones were the future of computing.
Apparently they wanted to make an UI that would be usable on both touchscreen and mouse-driven devices, ended up with something that doesn't work well on either.
I've been a daily-driver desktop user of Linux for something like 5 or 6 years now. To work on a expansion of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, I installed it on a PC as a dual boot, and it uses GNOME. It's terrible and with it being the default on a lot of the go-to beginner Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), I'd argue it's holding Linux adoption back. You get someone techy enough to actually try it, they see something like "hey Ubuntu is easy for beginners," then get put off by that crap.
Yeah, I’d probably push a new user to Fedora KDE. It’s annoying to say because they are oozed too, but for something that works well it’s a good start. I started with Kubuntu for about the first year and it gave me too many little unnecessary issues. It’s really not that good, and it’s a wonder I stuck it out.
I've been using GNOME since forever. Mostly because you can turn off all the annoying things with a few gsettings commands and have a clean "get out of my way" desktop. Even convinced my company to throw a $$,$$$ at them a few years ago.
Might take a look at Cosmic once it's fully baked. I don't need to deal with nor support woke gatekeeping.
WAGIE WAGIE GET IN CAGIE
Okay jokes aside, GNOME has been a horrific shitshow for well over a decade now. Unfortunately the project is propped up by the likes of Red Hat/IBM so it's unlikely to die a deserved death anytime soon.
...kinda funny how the "pro-working-class" marxists all look down on the "wagies" innit?
Yeah. I remember GNOME 3 being a cluster fuck when it came out. To the point where MATE and Cinnamon were created by distros that formerly used GNOME 2, so they didn't have to deal with GNOME 3
Time to shill for the +NIGGER licence.
https://plusnigger.org/
They missed an opportunity with that license; should have called it the "CRACKER/KIKE/NIGGER/CHINK" license. Fewer justifications for calling it racist.
It's exactly as complex as it needs to be.
This one is worth the watch; I'd heard of less than half of the woke shitshows he calls out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mLZyShQjQ
Absolutely worth the watch for anyone even tangentially interested in the state of Linux. Thanks for passing that along.
Is there any distro that isn't a ticking timebomb of delusional faggot destruction? Has any taken steps to safeguard itself?
Lunduke OS actually sounds interesting though not available yet - https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5751035/its-official-the-lunduke-journal-is-creating-a-linux-distro
Why are they triggered with Lunduke?
I dug around to see myself, first glance, he has unpopular opinions and goes on autistic spergs about them. Fair enough then I started seeing things like "racist, MAGA, right-wing, nazi, conspiracy theorist, Trump." You know the normal leftist crap. Being that GNOME is perhaps the most infiltrated large open source project, there's the answer.
...explains why it tries to hard to look like MacOX...
There's always been a not small subset of Linux desktops that really want to be a Mac and I've never understood why. Mac has always been a pain in the ass, but going way back there was always some "I'm a artíst, I only use Mac because my brain is superior you loathful PC scum." So I suspect it's from people wanting to join in that somehow.
My understanding is with Gnome 3 they went all in with the "here's our way, it's the best so do it this way only" method just like Apple does too.
why I switched to KDE. yeah, it's a bit resource-heavy compared to cinnamon or MATE, but I'm familiar with it, and my god man...gnome sucks harder than kamala trying to imitate a kirby vaccum...
Yeah, everyone points to resources, but I mean with no apps open I use about 2GB of RAM and a whopping 15GB of disk space on a fairly fresh install on a weak little mini PC. I love when things use less, but in the grand scheme of things 2GB of RAM is beyond trivial and resource wise it pales in comparison to Windows.
It wasn't that long ago that relatively pricey computers didn't even have the expansion slots to allow 2GB of RAM to be installed. KDE used to run just fine on those computers, once you disabled Nepomuk.
tell me about it. I can barely run ark on windows, but on fedora, I can run it with reasonably good graphics settings.
I'm going to say he called them idiots.
Installed a gnome distro VM a while back to do something and to launch a program you move the mouse to the upper left then back down to the bottom center.
That's like some kind of UI hate crime. Commodore Amiga had a better UI than this Gnome trash.
edit: he called out Gnome for hiring a self-proclaimed professional shaman as Executive Director.
There was a version of gnome3 that required you to actually swipe to unlock to get to the password prompt if your screen was locked. Even on a desktop, you had to press left mouse and swipe up. It only lasted very briefly and soon after they made it so pressing any key would show the prompt as well, but to this day I can't fathom what was going throufmgh the head of whoever implemented that. I'm sure the GNOME devs would love to keep it that way, too, but it was so dumb it was unacceptable to Red Hat.
That was the initial GNOME 3 release. By the time they fixed it, I had already switched to XFCE. They believed that desktops were obsolete, and that tablets and phones were the future of computing.
Apparently they wanted to make an UI that would be usable on both touchscreen and mouse-driven devices, ended up with something that doesn't work well on either.
...kinda like when the windows8 interface swarmed across all MS devices, even though users absolutely hated it?
yeah, that checks out...
I've been a daily-driver desktop user of Linux for something like 5 or 6 years now. To work on a expansion of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, I installed it on a PC as a dual boot, and it uses GNOME. It's terrible and with it being the default on a lot of the go-to beginner Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), I'd argue it's holding Linux adoption back. You get someone techy enough to actually try it, they see something like "hey Ubuntu is easy for beginners," then get put off by that crap.
I hate all the shilling for Ubuntu. My initial experience with it put me off Linux for a while
Yeah, I’d probably push a new user to Fedora KDE. It’s annoying to say because they are oozed too, but for something that works well it’s a good start. I started with Kubuntu for about the first year and it gave me too many little unnecessary issues. It’s really not that good, and it’s a wonder I stuck it out.
Unfortunately so many apps are still reliant on GTK so it's hard to avoid gnome completely
I've been using GNOME since forever. Mostly because you can turn off all the annoying things with a few gsettings commands and have a clean "get out of my way" desktop. Even convinced my company to throw a $$,$$$ at them a few years ago.
Might take a look at Cosmic once it's fully baked. I don't need to deal with nor support woke gatekeeping.