• boaratio@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t mean to be pedantic, but why do people shit on DEs? I don’t like KDE, but I’ll never say an ill word about it. The whole point of Linux and open source in general is that we have choice. If you don’t like gnome, that’s fine, move along to your interface of choice. Come on, there are better things to argue about.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s never about the DE’s themselves, it’s about the devs.

      KDE’s devs are just focused on making a cool desktop environment with many features. It’s a little buggy and has some weird design decisions, but whatever, no biggie.

      GNOME devs deliberately sabbotage existing linux standards in attemps to take control over desktop linux. Examples: client-side decorations, client-side shadows, systray fiasco.

      This is not a question of personal preference. It’s a question of keeping desktop linux free, fair, and accessible for everyone.

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        9 hours ago

        You’re feeding the fire. Just use what you like and let the other DEs do their thing. You can totally exist without shitting on what other people prefer.

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          8 hours ago

          Did you even read my comment? This has nothing to do with personal preference. It’s a matter of defending a shared commons from a hostile force. Sure, an individual gnome user can coexist with an individual kde user, like seriously who cares its just a DE. But as a community, users of other DEs, WMs and compositors can only “coexist” with the gnome project in the same way that a population of humans can “coexist” with the COVID-19 virus

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      16 hours ago

      I interpret this being more about how GNOME apps function in general, also on other desktops, which is fair criticism.

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        14 hours ago

        That’s fine, move along. No need to crap on the hard work of the OSS people that work on anything.

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          13 hours ago

          I’ll have you notice that there’s also a gigachad in the meme, not just Kirk