Gnome is amazing, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

You’re probably too dumb to realise this, but people like you put people off of the projects they aggressively simp for.

That’s quite strange. If you plug in a live USB, does it work with other distros? Does your system have an Nvidia GPU?

I don’t reply to most comments. You should see my inbox, I have hundreds of undealt with notifications. I only even spotted this reply because I was correcting an autocorrect mistake on my previous one.

My numbers were correct and I explained why.

And your experience is pretty far from mine, I had to give up on appimages because they are problematic by design.

And like I said, Flatpak hasn’t been bad on storage for me. It uses deduplication and unlike you I didn’t go out of my way to cherrypick a small handful of applications that just so happened to use three different runtimes in order to bash it.

Use appimages if that’s what you want, but they’re not really an answer to Flatpaks, due to the huge systematic problems they have.

Appimages don’t use any deduplication at all and usually package everything in the app.

Sometimes they don’t do that though and expect your system to have certain packages, but that can and does cause reliability and portability issues.

E: portability not probability lol

The quoted storage figures for Flatpaks are misleading. They don’t use that much. I have 50+ Flatpaks installed and they use barely more than 2.4GB.

And Flatpaks are great. There’s nothing to ew at.

Think about it this way: going onto Linux communities and listening to what people say can be like listening to car mechanics chat.

But do you need to know what all of that stuff means to drive your car? Nah. But that info could come in handy, if you wanted to modify your car or something like that.

You don’t need to know what Wayland/X11, PipeWire, GTK4/Qt6, or anything like that is, in much the same way you don’t need to know what PowerShell, Event Viewer, NT kernel, or registry are to use Windows.

It’s far from just GNU utils, though.

Should we say “I don’t use Linux, I use GNU+Linux+systemd+pulseaudio+Wayland+Gnome+[etc]”

The fact that the US allows companies to flat out steal your device during a repair process is insane. This is theft. Actual straight up theft.

Surely this doesn’t even need any new laws - I’m pretty sure theft is already illegal

And for battery life, see if you can find any info on what others have got with your machine. I’ve got anything from a fair bit better, to the same, to an absolute catastrophe.

Is it stupid? I doubt MS cares about the absolutely miniscule amount of people who will care enough to complain about this. Those people would probably just turn the feature off, or use a different OS, anyway. Catering to that audience isn’t something MS cares about.

The average user won’t do a thing. MS gets to outsource the computational work of all this spying to their users and then hoover up the data at the end. Microsoft stands to gain a lot from this in the markets where it will be allowed to fly.

Gnome when you first use it feels like a stupid system, then once it “clicks”, you feel like the devs were goddamn geniuses for creating a workflow like it.

And yeah, the polish is nuts considering for a long time and assumption about FOSS was that all the apps are ugly and unpolished.

When it comes to software, certainly.

But it’s also important not to fanboy over people too much or assume they’re right about literally everything. I doubt most people here would share Stallman’s views on paedophilia, for example.

There’s a lot of doom and gloom online about this, but to me these seem like welcome changes 🤷

I guess we’ll see how Qualcomm’s chips turn out. Right now we only have synthetic benchmark leaks, which look good, but ARM CPUs often look good in synthetic workloads only to fall short in real ones, particularly when compared against an X86 system.

The rumour mill is also saying that AMD will be making ARM CPUs in a while - allegedly, they formed an ARM design team in order to try to get the Nintendo Switch 2 contract, but Nintendo stuck with Nvidia because they don’t want any potential issues with Switch 1 backwards compatibility.

AMD then kept this design team and will be making laptop SoCs now that ARM on Windows is starting to mature and Qualcomm’s exclusivity deal (yes, they had an exclusivity deal. That’s why all current Windows ARM machines are Qualcomm) is ending.

Not actually the first time AMD has worked on ARM. They made K12, but it was scrapped in favour of Zen when it was clear AMD only had the resources to work on one architecture.

I’m sure Jensen appreciates all the simping you do on his behalf.

(Btw that’s sarcasm, in case it flew over your head. He doesn’t know you exist.)

Ah yeah, losers are people who use their computers to run recreational software, as opposed to the people who come onto social media and cry about people using their hardware recreationally, who definitely aren’t losers in the slightest.

That was sarcasm, by the way. I’m calling you a loser.

Oh shut up. Honestly what a loser take.

“How dare you play games on your PC!!! I’m the arbiter of what people do on their PCs and I say games are banned!!”

Jesus Christ, get a life.

Maybe take your own advice.

And again, sorry I insulted the GPU company you care so much about.

I doubt it’s happening anymore. But it did happen for a while after the change to Gnome 3

Gnome.

• The workflow is amazing once it “clicks” (but in the few days it takes before that happens, man it’s annoying. You end up asking yourself time and again why don’t they just copy Windows like everybody else)

• With the exception of ElementaryOS, Gnome seems to be the only DE that really cares about design, especially in terms of consistency. Random bits of text in different sizes, different fonts in different places, inconsistent padding, improper handling of rounded corners, etc all really bug me. Most people don’t seem to notice or care (probably because MS has trained us not to care about UX consistency lol), but for me it wears me out and makes me hate using PCs. Gnome is a polished UX and it feels like everything was designed very purposely, with a lot of thought.

• There’s a good ecosystem of GTK4/Libadwaita apps.

• Probably have the best accessibility features.

• It’s really stable for being a modern DE.

• I respect the devs for having a vision and sticking to it, despite getting hate/death threats for it. It’s led to a different and very functional DE, unshackled from the traditional Win95 UX paradigm.

E: just because it’s not your DE of choice doesn’t mean you need to downvote me or send me DMs calling me names lmao. Some people in the Linux community are completely unhinged lol