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Having followed this controversy but lacking the technical knowledgeâŚitâs hard for me to judge much.
That said, Iâm actually pretty happy with the outcome here. Iâm a GNOME lover, but I think System76 doing their own thing is better for them. The way Pop has modified GNOME since cosmic shows a real misunderstanding of its workflow and priorities, splitting everything up to slow things down and ironically getting in the way of the keyboard-driven workflow their awesome tiling extension encourages. They do good work and the vision they seem to be moving toward isnât inherently badâŚit just clashes so dramatically with GNOME that trying to beat it into that shape makes for an awkward result that doesnât suit either vision.
yeah, the system76 / GNOME team relationship hasnât been on the best of terms for a while
Glad to finally see what the drama has all been about in context. There are clearly massive breakdowns in communication and feelings interfering with effective collaboration. One may not agree with GNOMEâs stance on theming and not letting distributors break apps, but itâs clear that the GNOME hate frenzy these past few days/weeks has been totally devoid of good faith.
While I use Pop_OS! as my daily drive, I hate that they are working on a new DE. The latest Linux video absolutely destroyed Pop_OS!, showing that even though we donât want to see it, Linux still isnât mature enough to be used by the average user. And imho, fragmentation is the reason for this. Just imagine how many years it would take the talented developers at System76 to make a stable and mature Desktop Environment, and how much better KDE or GNOME or XFCE would become if the same effort and time where put into them. I donât like centralization obviously, but we already have so many great options, would be a waste of time working on another one while we donât have a complete user-friendly solution yet.
After reading this Iâve decided I donât want to fuck with system76 OR gnome
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By âfuck withâ I meant âsupport.â
GNOME devs are toxic, System76 handled it unprofessionally. They can both fuck off as far as Iâm concerned.
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I wish I liked KDE. I even tried playing around with LXQT.
Currently Iâm on Elementary OS just because of the simplicity and polish. Even though itâs based on GTK. Iâd like if someone created a gnome-like UI based on QT. One that was designed to be both polished and accessible.
I might try and make it myself, canât be hard, right? :-D
so cutefish? itâs more mac-like than GNOME like, but itâs kind of a elementaryOS but with Qt instead of GTK
Yes hopefully Cutefish will get there. Right now itâs pretty basic. Seems like it was designed for tablets or something, but I do like it.
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Itâs true open source doesnât mean your PRs will get accepted, but closed source just means your work dies with you. Everybody reintroduces the wheel and nothing gets anywhere.
Rather my work is close source until I feels itâs ready for release to public under LGPL, itâs more or less a WIP mainly with documentations, bindings for other programming languages, and adding more GUI control elements. Itâs not going to always stay close source, itâs going to end up being dual licensed work.
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