extensions (in my testing, typically in a VM of fedora or openSUSE) are a pain in the ass to use. it’s also difficult to find the one that I’m looking for because there’s generally several with the same name. something like a system tray (iirc the extension is “app indicators”) or having the dock always visible on the desktop (idk what the extension is called) are features that most people who don’t already use gnome rely on to some degree. these things are core functionality of most desktops precisely because most people use and like these features, and adding a few of the most popular features won’t add enough extra data to really be bloat.

quick sidenote, while typing this I realized the way I have been phrasing things may sound a little aggressive. it's not meant to, this is meant to be more of a breakdown of why I think what I do about gnome as a desktop. I'm not sure how to rephrase this to be less aggressive, so I'm leaving this bit right where I noticed it instead.

I personally am very big on having all the customization I can get (kde user, obviously) but I actually did almost stick with gnome once. I tried vanilla is because orchid has just come out and while I was messing with it I found out that it had the dock extension available by default (was new to Linux at the time and didn’t know how to actually use extensions yet) and with that dock extension I didn’t mind gnome as much. the thing with gnome is that it has a lot of good ideas but it ruins a lot of them by only half-implementing what everyone else is already doing. most people would probably find it a lot more usable if it just had features that have been standard since literally the beginning of GUIs, and used to be standard in gnome.

fuck you it’s January

most of the things in gnome extensions should be built in and available from the settings. that being said there’s nothing stopping me from just using something else, hence why I use kde.

how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it’d be unfair not to mention them)?

no you fucking freak are you not using dry water?

cool, lmk what you think after you try it. also, there’s no posts yet but on one of my Lemmy accounts I made a community for it.

I (after a lot of prior distro hopping) went from neon to tuxedo OS and have had very few issues, and only one that was major (was my own fault).

not doing it for a trend I genuinely hate emojis and I want people who use them to know that I hate it, even though they don’t (and shouldn’t) care.

downvoted bc I hate emojis

it’s a nickname

sure but if Whatsapp was in consideration security clearly isn’t.

not as an alternative to Whatsapp, I mean not bothering with an alternative to texting. there is no need for something like Whatsapp because everything it does is already part of just texting normally. Whatsapp is a texting alternative, and as such is pointless.

you can tell this was made by a Mac user bc it implies that macs are the only functional computers.

I’d recommend just regular texting, but if for whatever reason you can’t/don’t want to the. matrix should work, it’s basically foss discord.

I’d say anything longer than five minutes, with anything less getting at most a “I’ll be right back” with a gesture in the direction you’re going.

it means that it needs to be an actual maintained organization, not Jim bob and his buddies threatening anybody they don’t like. it’s also not a requirement, it’s only the reasoning provided.

realistically the CEOs make the biggest scare, but the chain of command usually barely even reaches them in large companies. if you really want to stop a company from doing bad things it’s not a super effective strategy. that being said if you’re trying to make them feel unsafe then it’s perfect, but it is also terrorism by definition. do with that what you will. edit: clarified what kind of company

unfortunately, a lot of the time they really don’t have a choice at the store level. I know it’s not the most helpful suggestion, but maybe reaching out to corporate to let them know there are people who want that could help. good luck on your lard quest.

make communities, tell people about them on Reddit, about all you can do. “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink”.

I think it’s more that as qol improved so too did the ability of common people to record their frustrations