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Bazzite is downstream from fedora, which i’ll remind you is partially handled by red hat, aka a large ass company with “a lot of money to throw into things”. The bazzite developers only handle a smaller portion of the maintenance that distributions require, and really only as much as they want and are confident in handling.

The CSDs vs SSDs has very little to do with users, it’s about pushing application developers to create their own decorations and get rid of the awful title bar. In the end GNOME caved and created libdecor and now I still have half my applications with an extra bar that has literally 1 button.

People just want things to never change. How many of those users do you think actually bothered to look into why GNOME won’t implement SSDs?

We’re not talking about the same thing. GNOME did get rid of titlebars, most core applications use sidebars and the rest use headerbars - which are better integrated titlebars. I suggest reading the article.

Yeah accessibility features tend to be last in line. The good news is that getting rid of x11 will put a fire under people to get it done.

You do know the reason GNOME is pushing CSDs is to get rid of titlebars right?

It’s a none issue these days because toolkits and engines are gonna implement their own decorations anyways and for everyone else there’s libdecor.

Extensions are third party, meaning if they are broken you need to complain to the extension developer. If you want to use extensions on GNOME i recommend keeping to the popular ones (dock, justperfection…) as they are regularly updated, and to hold off from upgrading GNOME asap to give the extension developers time to update.

The thing about customizing is that it’s never free, someone has to write in the feature and someone has to keep it up to date, which is why GNOME delegates a lot of its customization to third parties allowing a more stable experience and faster development.

I think the problem you have with GNOME is more about you refusing to learn new ways to interact with your pc and instead trying to mold GNOME into what you think the desktop experience should be, and that’s always going to be an uphill battle.

It’s easy to forget what these “tiny” percents represent but steam has 132 million monthly active users, 3 percent of that means that we now have over 3 million linux players.

Well Mint still uses x11 and a forked mutter from 2020… so yes most likely.

I played it and had a great time a few years ago and I’m certainly no 13yo or edgelord. Vtmb has a very unique setting, good writing and a great soundtrack. The gameplay is probably the worst part about it though, it’s also quite unfinished in the later parts. Don’t open it.

Fedora isn’t quite the same as Ubuntu or RHEL, it’s partly handled by both the community and redhat. See the Fedora Project.

Let’s put things into perspective, it’s a biyearly notification that sustains the entire gnome ecosystem, I’ll remind you that the GNOME foundation pays for the hosting costs, the paperwork and sometimes even development for the GNOME project that includes dozens of apps, libraries and GTK.

This is just the first implementation that will get ironed out in the next few years, like making sure it doesn’t pop up in full screen windows and if you read through the issue there will also be an opt out in the settings.

I looked into it and the reason this is happening is because GNOME sets the notification to critical, and here is a design team member requesting that the notification be made urgent, as for why i can only guess.

It’s easy to test with notify-send test, and yeah GNOME does block notifications while fullscreen applications are open. I wonder how that notification went through, maybe gamescope isn’t properly registering the fullscreen application or it’s x11 wine being the problem.

GNOME lets you block notifications on a per application basis.

From what I remember they were using GNOME for pop os with some custom addons they had made (for example a tiling addon). GNOME updates will sometimes break addons and I think the pop os people got tired of this.

That’s barely a footnote compared to the development time that writing an entire DE requires, not to mention that now they can’t piggyback off GNOME’s development anymore and they’ll have to do everything themselves. There’s a reason Ubuntu eventually abandoned Unity and came crawling back to GNOME.

rust implies performance and security

Rust implies only 1 thing, and that’s no memory leaks, assuming you don’t use “unsafe” code. It’s still very much vulnerable to logic bugs and has the same performance as c (GNOME) and c++ (KDE).

That’s tame compared to blizzard tbf. Anyways these projects depend entirely on the reputation of the project and the goodwill of the community, you don’t have to trust someone when their cashflow depends on you liking what they’re making.

I agree that Ubuntu is a solid distro and would recommend it before Mint, it’s just not at the top of the list anymore. But if you’re happy with what you have, that’s all that matters.

I wonder if I missed a memo.

Ubuntu isn’t really made for regular users, canonical doesn’t care about you, they’re in it for the server / enterprise money; they’ll regularly take decisions that go against your best interest like pushing snaps and adding ads to the terminal.

These days you don’t need .deb files with how ubiquitous flatpaks are becoming so there’s no real reason to stick to ubuntu anymore. If you like the ubuntu release model, fedora should be the closest alternative. It’s still sponsored by a corporation, but they have a loose hand over the distribution.