I boot #Gnome every now and then on my system.
Every time I hope that its extensions ecosystem has finally become usable.
And every time I log back into i3/Sway after realizing that it still sucks. And badly.
How’s it possible that one of the two mainstream desktop managers for Linux has such a bad extensions ecosystem that, at any point in time, 80% of the available extensions are broken? And some only work when all stars align?
How’s it possible that more than a decade down the line the Gnome Shell ecosystem is still stuck on extensions that are basically just patches for JavaScript files that only work if the code on your machine is exactly the same as the code on the extension developer’s machine?
Fabio Manganiello /
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2024-07-06 00:27:38
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