Replying to that with an “RTFM” response has to be some kind of meta-joke.

Get real noob, I use bare Linux syscalls.

Something tells me that if a city can do it in 2004, so could a company with all the improvements in 2025. And as with the city, the biggest issue will be the management being idiots (corruption) and/or underfunding the IT.

If a company has to treat their employees like delicate flowers who can’t deal with a slightly different interface it’s not the issue with software, but the companies’ training program / policies and unwillingness to invest in them. And it’s not like investments in FOSS IT and your employees wouldn’t pay off, all those proprietary licenses are expensive as hell. See link, the city saved money despite even having to develop whole new tools, acquire licenses and whatnot. Lots of small stuff not necessary today anymore.

Not saying it wouldn’t be a complicated endeavour, but certainly not impossible and definitely one that pays off.

I wonder why people like OP feel convinced or even good doing rage bait on anonymous accounts like this and generally making the internet a worse place for everyone.

He is… the Watcher?

heavy DrakeNier breathing noises

I love both that it’s even well written as well as the professional answer it got despite its nature.

Not to mention they were flying at sight-seeing speeds.

Not sure why I should put the violet ribbon anywhere. Would feel weird, like an attempt to collect sympathy points.

I didn’t do more because Pinta crashed on me 3 times (really sucks ever since they moved to libadwaita).

bwwwwt

So much for it being optional.

There’s a good chance it won’t spread due to the UK being a very good example of how awful it is. Works quite well with the age verification shit, now that even Wikipedia is under threat you can explain it even to rather stubborn boomers rather well.

Over here they try different kinds of authoritarianism and surveillance instead. Like Chatcontrol (which by now became more of a Devicecontrol).

That’s called a Rolling Release. It will periodically bless you with a broken system to test your sysadmin skills.

(brace for all the “bUt It’S sTaBLe FoR mE” replies)

Basically, yes. OpenSuse is nice because it comes with everything already set up, including bootable snapshots through the bootloader.

You’re in a rather special position regarding the extensions in this case because except for 3 of them, they’re all directly maintained by your distro of choice. Which, additionally, is super slow with updating due to focusing on getting Cosmic ready and therefore extremely stable (and outdated) given nothing changes. Distro-specific extensions really are one of the few places where this kind of unstable extension system makes sense, since your distro maintainer also controls the update flow of Gnome for you and can do proper QA on it w/ those extensions before making updates available. It’s not a mix’n’match of code.

Also, I do realize that theming on Gnome isn’t officially supported on an OS level, and I don’t fully understand it all, but I do have a fairly consistently-used custom theme installed using Gnome tweaks. GTK3 iirc.

Modern Gnome applications using libadwaita instead of GTK3 or 4 will happily mostly ignore those, and the “User Themes” extension you need on modern Gnome to enable theming likes to cause problems. Usually one of the first “recommendations” you’ll hear when Gnome starts misbehaving is to disable your themes as Gnome just does not want to have them. I was just straight-up told to “not use Extensions if you want a stable system” (after losing about 40 minutes of work, again).

I had some debates with Gnome devs about it which I primarily take my points from. One of them told me they actively decided against an API, for the mentioned reason.

Looking at some old screenshot, before I cleaned out a lot in an attempt to stop the crashing I had these (don’t know which ones were still active when it crashed the third time, I only know it was about 7 to 8 and that I immediately began looking up how to install KDE out of frustration).

• Dash to Dock
• GSConnect
• Media Label and Controls (Mpris Label)
• Net Speed (definitely deleted this one later)
• Next Up
• RebootToUEFI
• RunCat
• Tray Icons: Reloaded (This is a freaking technical necessity)
• TwitchLive Panel (definitely deleted this one later)
• UPower Battery
• User Avatar In Quick Settings
• User Themes
• Wifi QR Code

As far as I am aware of, Gnome went “this is it by default, want more customisability - here is API, install or write your own extensions”

Not even that is true. They do not provide an API (specifically decided not to due to “extension developer freedom”), but allow Extensions to monkey-patch code in. That’s why it becomes unstable due to Extensions instead of just the Extension (or at least the Extension process) crashing. Imagine every change in KDE being a KWin script, or Firefox still relying on monkey-patching instead of the extension API. It’s wild.

Meeting criticism of this absurd way of doing things in something as important as the graphical shell with “it’s FOSS so either contribute or shut up” mentality some people show here is just dumb.

You guys are incredibly lucky then. I ran about 7 to 8 extensions and had the whole shell crash 3 times on me over a time of a few weeks, making me lose progress. The journal logs weren’t helpful, the gnome-shell just crashed and bailed.

GNOME only makes it possible to make Extensions via directly patching shell code and refuses to create an API. They can say whatever they want, this way of doing things is inherently unstable and will always break at some point, and it’s not primarily the fault of extension devs or users if that happens given there literally is no other way of doing it. Even something as simple as the RunCat extension is potentially able to crash your whole desktop. This is comparable to every single modification you do in KDE being a KWin script (that settings window does have a warning in front of it for a reason). Another comparison: This is also similar to how Firefox did Extensions until they adopted the common extension API in Firefox 3 (?), before then that browser was known to be crashing a lot and become sluggish quickly since any extension was monkey-patching code into it - exactly what Gnome extensions do to work.

It’s one thing to have a clear design idea, but Gnome took away so many freedoms (even basic theming) while merely providing an absolutely ridiculous way for even the smallest customization to then blame users and extension devs when something breaks or becomes unstable. It’s no wonder people are upset. System76 outright began to work from scratch, meanwhile Linux Mint is providing libadapta as drop-in replacement for libadwaita to patch basic theming features back into programs that use it.

If Cosmic drops its version 1.0 and keeps its promises I’d bet a lot on Gnome slowly but surely declining. It does what Gnome doesn’t want to.

The funniest thing about this is that, according to a Gnome dev, they decided to not create APIs or anything and keep relying on extensions to monkey-patch code into the gnome-shell process to ensure “developer freedom”.

It’s completely mad. I uninstalled Gnome after it crashed on me multiple times, taking either my work or (once) my game process with it.

On KDE at least IF the shell crashes it doesn’t cause all my programs to become unavailable too, I can save whatever I was doing. Its UI/UX is arguably a mess, but at least it god damn works reliably and doesn’t come as barren wasteland with missing base features. I would love to love Gnome, but god damn it hell no.

That overprized trash gets flung into everyone’s faces with ads constantly and is placed at eye level in optimal shelf locations so you see it first and can grab it the easiest. It’s placed at the counters when you have to wait (in overpriced small / singular packages), and if the advertising machine detects you might be perceptible to being convinced into buying it (e.g. through analysis of your previous purchases collected by the payback program or store itself together with your social media posts showing you’re sad or depressed) you’ll receive tailored ads at the right moment via Smartphone, websites, Music streaming service and (soon) car infotainment + “smart” camera-enabled digital ad screens in public.

Don’t blame people for being manipulated by the manipulation machine, none of us is safe against it. Our resources for full awareness are sucked dry and monetized until we’re tired and defenseless; and at that point you can’t blame anyone who just wants to buy something that makes them a littlr bit more happy and less tired. Of course everyone ultimately has free will, but in the dystopia we live in that free will requires phenomenal energy to truly act on.

Smash the system, not everyone else’s desire to feel happy. 🙂