| ▲ | steve1977 3 hours ago |
| Now that GNOME wants to abandon it. |
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| ▲ | Andrex an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| *turn it from default-on to default-off |
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| ▲ | shevy-java an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It's still a change. GNOME dictates onto users what the developers think the users should use or have. I find that not acceptable. | | |
| ▲ | kstenerud 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I once watched a co-worker completely bork a customer system by accidentally middle-clicking while moving his mouse after copying an ls -l of /usr/bin (where pretty much everything was a symlink to the real executables in /bin). Yeah, he shouldn't have been logged in as root, but the point remains that middle-mouse paste can be extremely dangerous and fat-finger-prone. | |
| ▲ | squigz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This can be said about literally any software? And as GP points out, it's not "dictating what you can use or have" - you can turn it back on. | |
| ▲ | szundi 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | Gabrys1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | defaults matter a lot! |
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| ▲ | spookie an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| GNOME devs really are special. I wonder why. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java an hour ago | parent [-] | | It is not just GNOME devs. Try to interact with systemd-poettering or I-pwn-glibc-Drepper. For some reason the Red Hat centric guys are troublemakers. More recently KDE devs also became troublemakers - first David "all must use systemd", then nate "I-can-ask-for-donations-at-will-by-placing-a-trojan-daemon-onto-people-whose-sole-job-is-to-ask-for-donations" (more about this guy here: https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde...) and of course the "there are no xorg-server users left on KDE, so all must use wayland". Developers became a LOT more like dictators in the last 10 years specifically. This was a change indeed. I am not sure what happened, but things changed. GTK is now also a pure GNOMEY dev-kit. Good luck trying to convince the GTK devs of anything that used to be possible in gtk2 or gtk3 - it is now GNOME only. | | |
| ▲ | RicoElectrico 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'm pretty scared what userland piece of software will be re-written while ditching backwards compatibility and making the current body of support knowledge worthless. After all, we've replaced the display server (sort of), audio, init and service management, network commands (netplan) if not much more. My bet would be on a rewrite of CUPS in Rust. Oh, your printer that worked for 20 years is now a useless brick? What a shame, at least now the printing subsystem is secure and blazing fast. | | |
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