Some say is the endemic corruption.

Just make sure to never mention the Rio Grande river while we smugly grin and look down on the stupid islamists and their stupid regimes.

The stakes are not the same

Well, that was pretty obvious that the portability is gone, especially when you start linking into systemd, even on the host system you have to link with the shared libs into systemd, you cannot link statically.

I never knew what happened to gnome that it got so bad, until I used a Mac and I realized that they just tried to copy it and miserably failed.

It is hilarious, don't get me wrong - I really appreciate more people moving away from these "Hi-Tech" deployment styles and cloud services and the rest, but it is like rediscovering hot water.

Ah, yes, the solution is to pay someone to do something . An extra 3.50 euro pet flight/passenger to avoid extra contrails, genius money making machine.

I was expecting a mouse at least. Aren't these insects supposed to be feeding on fruits? Why feed them ribeyes?

Coconut oil. And fruit flies do need fats for proper development.

Some pointed to already, but hosting anything at google is not the way forward.

Not everything, there are companies that do not own, or use any single windows machine for this exact reason waiting to happen. Was this worse than msblaster or? I remember that, painful.

Nothing else than taking some peasants and giving them a bodyguard uniform and now they feel more entitled than the building landord himself.

Gnome is kind of junk nowdays, right? Haven't used since slack 7.

On the contrary. I hadn’t used gnome since 2017, and back then it was absolute junk. Upon installing NixOS two weeks ago, I went with the default desktop environment for while, and this was gnome. I thought at first that NixOS had tweaked gnome into being nice, but my colleague assured me that this is how gbome is today.

More mimalistic, drawing inspiration from macOS.

I still have to remove stuff rather than add stuff to get to where I want. But it wasn’t the first thing I removed on a new install.

Last time I tried was in Ubuntu 20.something and ... yes it was trash.

I'm going to posit that unless you've used GNOME, KDE, etc. on more than one distribution, it's potentially unfair to judge the DE based on that singular experience.

I've had very different experiences with various desktops depending on which distribution they are on. Ubuntu tends to customize GNOME more than Fedora, so it's possible that what you didn't like was more to do with Ubuntu than GNOME. (Not dissing Ubuntu here - I tested 24.04 recently and it was fine. I actually liked some of their customizations.)

Frankly, does it matter?

I was forced into ubuntu in that job, so whatever Canonical was shipping was effectively GNOME to me.

Also i looked into dealing with that "flavour" of gnome and the settings availability was just poor. Even XFCE which is a way smaller project does have more and better settings.

And let's not even pull KDE into the discussion, KDE has literally TONS of options.

Ubuntu desktop is Ubuntu desktop, not Gnome desktop.

It uses Gnome but it isn't Gnome.

It's 99% GNOME with few additions that can be disabled if you want a more pure experience

By that definition virtually nobody uses Windows. Shipping gnome with extensions doesn't make it not Gnome. It is in fact the only Gnome that the majority of users have used given the relative popularity of Ubuntu vs Fedora.