He claims the developers are hostile to negative feedback, but for anyone who follows the issue trackers they’re actually quite open to feature requests. Some get tasked with milestone goals, some for final release, but it’s based on available resources and reasonable timelines.

He also claims Gnome implements things people ask for, which is one of the most hilariously inaccurate statements I have ever seen in my entire life.

From one of the comments in this video, my personal favorite is “wake up babe, new vaxry drama dropped”. If he read the issue trackers on github, he would see just how aware the devs are of what they need to work on. It’s actually been pretty awesome to see the prioritization of work and estimated timelines.

Thank you so much for sharing this. Excellent post.

Only if beancounters and investors start making administrative decisions.

After seeing other potential alternatives, then seeing how LW and a few other instances took off, credit really goes to protocol devs, fediverse devs/admins, and LW is a standout for the praise you just mentioned as well. It’s a culmination of so many things going right to make such a diverse and expansive community. We’re already seeing the tech question help phenomena that Reddit has right here on LW, where some search engine queries can be magically made better by appending lemmy.

Let the migration continue! I haven’t missed Reddit since coming here.

I think that was understood, and I’m also of the opinion that Facebook is full of shit.

The KDE guys have been on fire for the past two years. Between their theming, color selection, and session handling they’ve come a long ways. They’ve also implemented some gnome-only features such as the overview, albeit in a very optional way. As opposed to eliminating a panel and forcing you to use the overview to see what applications or windows you have open, or available to launch, it’s just a window management tool instead of a UX paradigm.

Their wayland session is stable and also deals with xwayland in a very different way. If you set a custom scaling factor, the QT apps and GTK apps are talked to in a way that makes the same scaling factor consistent across all your applications, even under a wayland session with xwayland. The Gnome devs hand-wring about how the world has to be perfect before implementing an idea, where the KDE devs try something and then iterate if it’s successful.

• Calling the Arch Wiki contributor’s clowns
• The public tantrum with System76 because of the poor attitudes on the part of the Gnome project
• The Gnome way: stop making shell extensions and contribute to the Shell or get fucked.
• The overall attitude of the devs regarding user opinions, resulting in the plethora of extensions available, and the tone deaf attitude regarding all of them.
• The world must be perfect before we do jack shit about fractional scaling, despite people moving to HiDPI/4K monitors.

Trundle on over to KDE-land, and you find a very different tone. They’re not too proud to adopt paradigms that conflicted with core design principles if they’re widely beloved (look at Overview as a prime example). Fractional scaling is miles ahead of Gnome in functionality and performance impact, solved in both X11 and elegantly in Wayland so that xwayland apps have a hook to get correct DPI info without looking blurry. The deep customizations available have negated the need for much of their session modifications, as they rapidly adopt good ideas (floating panels anyone? Ahh yes, Plasma has got you).

They’re also extremely nimble when it comes to changing course on their backend. They went from having a buggy Wayland session to having the most stable one by far. They also take criticism far better, either taking it in stride or recognizing then they did something off-base.

Gnome can go to hell, and fuck the stupid ass GTK which is objectively inferior to QT. Redhat can nibble on my shit too for all I care.

This money would have been far better given to KDE instead of the assholes at Gnome.

Also ran afoul with a mod. Merari01 specifically. I reported one of his comments, and he sent it up as abuse of the report button. Insta perma banned. My account was registered in 2010.

Reddit’s been awful for a while though so the loss wasn’t too bad.

Go outside and touch some rhododendrons.

So idk the drama, didn’t see it or what happened, but I do know /r/linux was a place I didn’t enjoy nor felt welcome as it was a hostile echo chamber.

I would like to see this mod’s reaction to this claim though, and perhaps elaborate on it. I’m looking for a nice Fedora community and there’s not too many users on either instance yet.

[Edit]Oh shit I’d still be curious to hear Cap’s side of it. [Edit Edit] Actually no, after reviewing the history associated, Cap is a complete fucking asshole power tripping motherfucking douchebag piece of shit fuckhead. Nobody should be using this community, we all need to get the hell out of here. Oh my god what a piece of shit asshole.