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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I'm not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I'm sharing it.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This article can pretty much be summed up as I don't like GTK or Gnome so I'm going to just present them being shit as a factual statement. I use Arch and KDE btw.

Gnome 3 released close to 13 years ago and was announced 16 years ago. At some point, people need to stop crying about the UX changes and get the fuck over it.

If you don't like it, use something else and stop being so entitled.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

See the above. Stop being entitled. It's their project and most of the work is done by volunteers, for free.

If you find their product so detestable, don't use it.

You don't have a god-given right to have free volunteers make software in the exact way you want them to.

They are volunteers working on their own project, not slaves working on yours.

Honestly nowhere outside of Linux do I see so many people get so much for free and yet be so spiteful and entitled in return.

[–] arthur 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Apple, Microsoft and Google, on the other hand, decides what is best for them, shove it down the users' throats and get users' money (and personal data) in return...

I think some criticism still valid though (but not the entitlement).