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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