Post #3690205

2026-07-09 01:30 UTC

I’m annoyed at modern Gnome’s hostility towards user customisability. Their refusal to support server side decorations has trickled down to Cinnamon’s Wayland compositor and it looks like it’s going to be a barrier in Wayland Cinnamon.

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@Harmonics041@feddit.uk 2026-07-09 08:46

I like gnome’s approach to a unified and opinionated human interface design. I think it makes a nice cohesive user experience. If other projects don’t want that then they probably shouldn’t be building off of gnome.

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@Artopal@lemmy.ml 2026-07-09 15:22

Modern? Gnome developers were always like that.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-07-09 15:31

In 2014, I felt like Canonical / Ubuntu actually added value beyond the Debian it was based on. As the years rolled on, Debian’s “shortcomings” became fewer and less important, meanwhile Canonical’s handling of Ubuntu has slowly accumulated what I consider “negative value.” Since 2024, my new installs have been Debian based, no more Canonical/Ubuntu. Fresh Ubuntu installs are still a bit more polished than Debian, but not in any way that compensates for the negative aspects of virtually forced use of snap packaging, Gnome (Xubuntu is a viable option, but so is XFCE on Debian), holding LTS updates hostage behind paywalls, etc.

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@Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-10 11:39

The Gnome team are just discount wanna be apple.

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