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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love the Gnome workflow, but holy shit, I get the hate. Why doesn't it support a lockscreen that's not gdm?

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I actually think general Gnome workflow is pretty alright (even if I prefer other things), but yeah, Gnome devs seem to like. Actively hate their users?

GNOME is the Apple of the FOSS world

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, like I'm all in favor of having an opinionated design, but their dominance makes their bad decisions actively harm every other de. Stuff like refusing to compromise on cross-desktop protocols

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their "dominance" is the choice of the distributions. Gnome is opinionated, and I respect that they follow their vision. To me this is free software working as intended, people are free to fork Gnome if they want something that the devs don't want. And apparently, many distributions think Gnome should be the default. Maybe it shouldn't, but that's up to the distros to decide.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yeah, they're free to decide, I just disagree with them! I get the decision though, and if I were on charge of a large distro, I'd probably make the same choice (until plasma is on a normal release cycle)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wayland expects you to use the desktop for everything including locking. What's wrong with the lock screen? It seems fine.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn't work at all with sddm. That's what's wrong.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to have the freedom to switch easily.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is not going to happen as KDE and gnome conflict

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On what? On dependencies? That shouldn't be an issue with nixos.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Shouldn't be an issue with nixos.

[–] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I honestly like the vertical integration, but I can see why Linux folks would be annoyed. Honestly GNOME fits my workflow perfectly after a few extensions (mainly Dash to Dock). I’m super fickle, so its rigidity helps