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  • Björn TantauEnglish
    58•7 months ago

    Without watching the video, Canonical are doing their best to get Ubuntu there.

    • @shiroininjaEnglish
      17•7 months ago

      Omg i just tried 24.04 in a vm for testing. I really hate the direction they’re taking gnome. I know they’re trying this minimalist thing, but it’s horrendous. I’ve been gone for a few releases, and this is the first time I’ve used Ubuntu and thought “this is garbage”. Like it’s become so dumbed down.

      Maybe my tastes have changed, I dunno

      • palordrolap
        15•7 months ago

        GNOME and its applications have been headed in that direction for a while now, but I’m not sure Canonical are behind those changes. If they were, I’m sure they would have done something about GNOME apps looking alien on Xubuntu, for example.

        Source

        As that link suggests, the Mint team are looking to produce apps that run on any desktop environment, forking GNOME apps that don’t comply with that. Hopefully that keeps the momentum going for that sort of thing.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•7 months ago

          Ooh. I have noticed that some apps like gnome-disk-utility runs without the whole Gnome stack. I think that’s a really good direction.

      • Björn TantauEnglish
        13•7 months ago
        • The first was the amazon sponsored search. But that was a few years ago.
        • Constantly it’s Canonical’s not invented here syndrome where they don’t work with others to do new stuff but instead opt to push their own solutions which often fail.
        • Snap’s dependency on a proprietary store backend.
        • And the latest is locking some security updates behind a mandatory Ubuntu Pro account.

        Nothing quite as bad as what Microsoft is doing with Windows. But not really in the great fluffy open source spirit either.

        Luckily thanks to open source nobody is forced to put up with any of that.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•7 months ago

          My goddaned xterm is lagging, like wtf. Literally logged into a virtual machine for work several hundred miles away running commands through some weird-ass windows SSH terminal software on a server several thousand miles away from the virtual machine and it lags less than the term on my local machine. I’ve moved from vim to vscode it’s so painful.