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I think as a GNU project, Gnome is an exception.
Gnome isn’t a GNU project any longer. They removed references to GNU from their website when Stallman was brought back as GNU leader after speaking in favor of pedophilia.
In typical Gnome fashion they didn’t merely renounce GNU and Stallman, they lied and claimed that Gnome has never ever been a GNU project.
It isn’t “non standard.” It is literally s part of gnome.
It’s a stand-alone tool by the Gnome developers, it’s not an integral part of Gnome.
The default UX of Gnome still make it hard for people migrating from Win10. No amount of nitpicking about irrelevant details change that fact.
Haters gonna hate I guess
I didn’t expect any other response by a Gnome fan. Keep ignoring comments like https://lemmy.world/comment/22252682 where I explained that I picked Gnome for an elderly man. I’m really such a hater that I pick Gnome for a certain use case.
I’m pretty sure you can live without the minimize button.
I’m volunteering in a repair café where older people bring their Windows 10 computers and seek help migrating to Linux because their PC told them that Win11 isn’t compatible.
I make recommendations based on each person, trying to realize what they wish for first if they have an idea what they want. A few months ago there was an >70y/o man. Let’s be realistic here, at this age it might well be the last PC he ever owns. So I set him up with Alma Linux (extra long support cycle) and made its Gnome desktop as Windows-like as possible. He’s not getting pressured into unfamiliar UX metaphors and no way I’m pushing software from EPEL or anything that onto him. I enabled Flathub and temporarily installed aforementioned tools to make the necessary tweaks, then uninstalled these tools again, and installed a few of Gnome’s games, Celluloid, and Chrome off Flathub.
For the rest of the day he ate cookies and drank coffee and seemed pretty happy with that setup. We invited him to come back, should he have any further questions. Haven’t seen him again.
For the max/min buttons you can just turn them on in gnome tweaks
Ah yes, using a different non-standard tool makes so much of a difference.
Gnome has one great purpose and that is for tablets.
Doesn’t work well on tablets, though.
why in the fuck is it pronounced guhnome
It’s not. There is no vowel between G and N. Watch an episode or two of Star Trek and listen to some Klingon or Vulkan names to learn how such a combination of letters is pronounced without adding a vowel.
yet seem incapable of understanding that people could have preferences different from their own.
Perfect description of Gnome developers.
Kde is so ugly and buggy, requiring tons of setup n knowhow to fix.
Surely you confuse Plasma and Gnome. To get a sane setup on Gnome, you need to install Refine to enable the minimize button and then install Gnome Extension Manager and enable Dash to Panel or Dash to Dock.
That’s an insane amount of setup work for someone who doesn’t know about those things.
Your first mistake was attempting to unarchive to / in the first place. Like WTF. Why would this EVER be a sane idea?
Threads doesn’t work with Lemmy/Piefed. Their ActivityPub implementation only targets Mastodon.
Also, instances that defederate from Threads but not Truth Social are a joke.
IMO there is a difference in productivity tools and entertainment. With entertainment products they’re usually consumed and then replaced. Productivity tools you’re stuck with and vendor lock in is a real problem.
Then they switch to Qt and realize that VLC and Haruna (a mpv frontend) already cover the bases.
DeX is more often used on Samsung tablets with attached keyboard. I didn’t check but I assume it’s being merged with Android’s upstream desktop mode.
The term “desktop” has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. 😉
Samsung DeX = desktop Linux. You heard it here first, folks.
Maybe OP is annoyed?
There is only one piece of software named Linux and that’s the kernel. Android is as much a legitimate distribution of Linux as is Alpine Linux.
Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.
The differentiator is glibc. That’s what defines binary compatibility. Ubuntu still used glibc, Android uses Bionic.
Then your VPN provider is blocking catbox. You should switch to a different VPN.
Only the kernel is called Linux. The userspace is completely different from GNU/Linux but the actual software named Linux is being used. Alpine Linux isn’t GNU/Linux either.