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That is an act of cruelty towards the poor pokémon (pawb.social)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I love the Gnome workflow, but holy shit, I get the hate. Why doesn't it support a lockscreen that's not gdm?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I actually think general Gnome workflow is pretty alright (even if I prefer other things), but yeah, Gnome devs seem to like. Actively hate their users?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

GNOME is the Apple of the FOSS world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, like I'm all in favor of having an opinionated design, but their dominance makes their bad decisions actively harm every other de. Stuff like refusing to compromise on cross-desktop protocols

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Their "dominance" is the choice of the distributions. Gnome is opinionated, and I respect that they follow their vision. To me this is free software working as intended, people are free to fork Gnome if they want something that the devs don't want. And apparently, many distributions think Gnome should be the default. Maybe it shouldn't, but that's up to the distros to decide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh yeah, they're free to decide, I just disagree with them! I get the decision though, and if I were on charge of a large distro, I'd probably make the same choice (until plasma is on a normal release cycle)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wayland expects you to use the desktop for everything including locking. What's wrong with the lock screen? It seems fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't work at all with sddm. That's what's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I though you were on gnome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to have the freedom to switch easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is not going to happen as KDE and gnome conflict

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On what? On dependencies? That shouldn't be an issue with nixos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Configuration files

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Shouldn't be an issue with nixos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I honestly like the vertical integration, but I can see why Linux folks would be annoyed. Honestly GNOME fits my workflow perfectly after a few extensions (mainly Dash to Dock). I’m super fickle, so its rigidity helps