> It works just fine on Fedora 31. Just Start Typing! The last version of Fedora that I tried was 29, I think. After a fresh install, I launched gnome-software, and it was unable to find any applications. I eventually found a workaround (I forget what it was), and got applications to show up, but even then there were problems. Some applications showed up twice, and some showed up as installable even though they were already installed. I'm glad to hear that the first bug is fixed now, at least on Fedora. Are those other two bugs fixed as well?
> 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. I 100% agree. I'm not complaining about GNOME in general, just gnome-software. I don't mind that gnome-software is shiny. I mind that it is unreliable, has an unnecessarily complicated UI, and adopts the framing of proprietary app stores. That last complaint is not because I don't think we should try to "market" free software, but because I think we should do so in a way that speaks to its social advantages and with a framing that reinforces free software values and a culture of sharing. Referring to browsing and installing software from a free software repository as "shopping" reinforces the idea that information like software should be thought of and treated as physical property, a framing which benefits proprietary software. I think we should try to make our repositories easy to navigate, but that this does not require us to pretend that users are "shopping" for anything. We should present our repositories as an accessible commons, reinforcing the idea that information should be shared rather than hoarded, a framing which benefits free software. > 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 Thanks, I'll watch this later. Based on the title I have a feeling I'll mostly agree, although I would say that based on my experience we should favor GNOME as a DE to recommend to younger users, especially younger macOS users, while favoring more traditional environments like MATE and Xfce for older users, especially older Windows users, who I find are often confused by and/or annoyed with GNOME's UI.
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