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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] tram1 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't get it... Does this tiny change ruin it for you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Having to create .desktop files in god knows where for me to be able to right click -> "open with" my program of choice sure pushed me away

I don't even know what they were thinking not letting you beowse for any executable file on disk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't you supposed to use alacarte app to create new program entry on gnome?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's definitely not what Google told me to do at the time in 2015

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah same. There are some types of text file where gedit doesn't even appear as an option. Like sometimes I don't want to open .xml files in the browser.

I was able to set VScode for .xml files but not gedit. It's not a huge deal but that one thing makes gnome feel like immature software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I used GNOME for close to 20 years, but finally dropped it with the release 40. I've had enough of them breaking features.

By that time KDE finally stabilized and it does everything I want, my way.