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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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GNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd (blogs.gnome.org)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Well this is bound to be controversial, to say the least. GNOME and systemd are two pieces of software that attract very polarized opinions.

I'm interested to see how this evolves. The planned session restore feature sounds nice. With the Wayland changes coming too, GNOME 50 should be a big deal, one way or another.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Yes, systemd is a very good and very well written piece of software while GNOME is a pile questionable decisions that uses web tech to create themes and takes about half a second to load up any window. Also the same pile where you've to use 3 different network management UIs to get stuff done. And... where you can't have desktop icons because they were too hard to get done properly OR where you can't have a "disable animations" toggle on the settings to actually disable ALL animations instead of just some stuff while leaving others arounds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Please consider to stop hating on GNOME or its design choices the very moment it's brought up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sure, can they consider stopping wasting money / time actually develop useful stuff? For a DE that got €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund they're not showing results.

Okay fine, desktop icons can be a design decision, however a “disable animations” toggle on the settings that doesn't disable ALL animations... that's just poorly made software, not something you may have an opinion on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sure, can they consider stopping wasting money / time actually develop useful stuff? For a DE that got €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund they’re not showing results.

It is a fact that GNOME is the only other DE (besides KDE Plasma) that has modern features. So, frankly, I don't know what you're talking about.

Furthermore, GNOME's ways lends itself a lot better to the secure by default/design paradigm(s) as illustrated by this table from secureblue.

however a “disable animations” toggle on the settings that doesn’t disable ALL animations…

Do you mean the one that used to be in accessibility? Though, FWIW, I couldn't even find it this time 😅. Instead, consider to evoke the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false

I'll grant you that it might feel archaic for some to do this through a terminal. Though, this setting is also accessible through Dconf Editor. Regardless, at least it works as desired.