On 11/26/2019 02:04 AM, [email protected] wrote: > (1) It is a buggy piece of crap. On every distro I have tried it on > (Trisquel, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora), I have run into serious problems.
It works just fine on Fedora 31. Just Start Typing! > (2) It prioritizes being fancy and Apple-like over being useful. From > the "Let's go shopping" message on startup (Trisquel users are not > "shopping" for products, but are installing free software from their > distro's repository) to the App-Store-like organization of information, > gnome-software treats its users like customers to be sold to. Marketing is a powerful thing. We need more of it for free/libre software. A nice, shiny GNOME desktop entices users and gets them thinking about free software. A foreign, technical-looking i3 rice makes people reassert that GNU+Linux is not for them, it's for nerds. Video: Why I don’t Use GNOME but Everyone Else Should, a keynote by Bradley M. Kuhn at GUADEC 2016 https://invidio.us/watch?v=eTIH-vgJTsw
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