Gnome3 had a pretty big issue from inception in 2011 and continuing for 8 years without recognition. It’s not my fault you are young and just installed it last year. Some of us have been here a while. Some users continued to have issues all the way though 2021 and the fix is just as stupid as described.
Now the problem is not restarting it. It’s that you can’t restart it in place without losing your apps. This means if your shell crashes you lose everything. This would be less of an issue if the entire desktop weren’t written in javascript, if it actually had an addon api, or if it didn’t load all extensions into the same javascript context as the shell.
Compare and contrast to other systems which can survive graphic drivers crashing without dropping a session or X11 which can survive a component crash.
It suffers from the EXACT problem that the old firefox addon ecosystem suffered from only gnome learned nothing from mozilla and its pervasively used. 83% of users use extensions despite the fact that they are so unstable all extension devs have to opt into every minor release with every extension because there is is no way to verify that the any given addon works with the new version.
Gnome3 had a pretty big issue from inception in 2011 and continuing for 8 years without recognition. It’s not my fault you are young and just installed it last year. Some of us have been here a while. Some users continued to have issues all the way though 2021 and the fix is just as stupid as described.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/gnome-shell-has-a-memory-leak-and-it-might-not-be-fixed-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts
Now the problem is not restarting it. It’s that you can’t restart it in place without losing your apps. This means if your shell crashes you lose everything. This would be less of an issue if the entire desktop weren’t written in javascript, if it actually had an addon api, or if it didn’t load all extensions into the same javascript context as the shell.
Compare and contrast to other systems which can survive graphic drivers crashing without dropping a session or X11 which can survive a component crash.
It suffers from the EXACT problem that the old firefox addon ecosystem suffered from only gnome learned nothing from mozilla and its pervasively used. 83% of users use extensions despite the fact that they are so unstable all extension devs have to opt into every minor release with every extension because there is is no way to verify that the any given addon works with the new version.
https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/