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Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted (blogs.gnome.org)
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7224516

Imagine spending 3+ years on staying mad at GNOME to release the most underwhelming software imaginable.

System76 is best known for spreading misinfo and lies about GNOME and other upstreams, selling overpriced re-branded clevos, "being made in America", loving rust and hyping on twitter and mastodon.

Most of the "backlash" against GNOME comes from the a community that has more opinions than users or just straight up misinformation and spite.

COSMIC is very poorly designed, it might be written in the "memory-safe programming language" but it's clear that they don't have a design backbone. They basically created the caricature of GNOME's adwaita but now you can paint your windows in whatever barf-inducing color you want.

They built an entire new desktop from scratch rather than work with GNOME or KDE and in that amount of time, literally every issue that sparked that redesign was resolved upstream in both aforementioned desktops.

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Extensions are there to be used, just use them. Imagine using kde or firefox without adjusting it. There is a base version that fits for everyone and people can write extenions.

Yes, many extensions should be in the base version but who am I to tell the GNOME devs what to include? The extension manager should be included by default. It's the distro's maintainers fault if it's not included at this point. They should be easier to discover, but again, I am not really helping to improve the situation either.

[–] priapus@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Extensions are there to be used, just use them. Imagine using kde or firefox without adjusting it.

Except if you use any kind of rolling or semi-rolling distro you will have to deal with extensions breaking every major update. If a different DE offers these features out of the box, it makes way more sense to me to just use that.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you can bypass the version validation check

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This. I find that most extensions don't break as gnome isn't making radical upgrades.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes but if the only extension that breaks is important in your workflow, you’re still left with a sour taste.

That’s why, despite needing more extensions, I’ve only iept 3-4 which never break.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it’s definitely a bit weird to setup but I don’t think I can leave gnome now that I’ve finally made it mine

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think getting the base DE and 'adding modules' (extensions) is great. And some distros like Bazzite add around 10+ extensions by default.