crk5 (@crk5@aus.social)
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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml
    • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 days ago
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      my issue with gnome is that it’s not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep working

      • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago
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        That’s a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it’s been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it’s absolutely GNOME’s biggest downfall.

        It’s also partially why I don’t recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there’s a good chance it just won’t work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.

        I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time.

      • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        2 days ago

        I came from macOS and found GNOME pretty accommodating. It’s more akin to macOS than to Windows, both looks and customisation-wise. I’m also a software engineer! :)

          • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 days ago

            Thanks! I feel obliged to say I built my PC in 2023, but Linux still feels exciting to me. Trying to avoid becoming that annoying Linux guy who tells everyone to install it lol.

            • Cytro@mastodon.de
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              2 days ago

              @R00bot
              😂 After I did my first installations (back in 1998) with SUSE and Red hat… And I thought it was a mess. But I restarted using Linux in 2020 and it was a whole new world. Linux is grown into a real usable and flexible OS, and I love it… And well I tell anybody to try it out 😂