WellTheresYourCobbler [ey/em, they/them]

Huh I didn’t realize it stopped development

I had read a blog post about this conflict a week or two ago (and I just pulled up an article by a gnome maintainer to refresh on details).

People are of course allowed to use older versions, but if a distribution, by policy, lags significantly (2-4 years) behind the normal release schedule of a piece of software it distributes, while at the same time leaving feedback pointed towards the original devs, it creates a completely unnecessary burden on the developers.

And regarding the “modifications”, it appears like mint had used the GTK4 library libAdapta instead of libAdwaita now several versions ahead of libAdapta. I don’t know how extensively this effects that app but the point is the user facing experience of the software is being modified by mint. I don’t believe it’s unreasonable for the maintainers to take the responsibility of handling bug reports and such, even if it just acts as a filter for relevant bugs to be reported upstream.

If you’re shipping an out of date package with your own customizations then uses should at least be redirected towards your own bug tracking services instead of sending them to waste the maintainers time on bugs that either have already been fixed or aren’t present without the tweaks applied by the distribution.

Fedora (Silverblue in particular) was the end of my distro hopping journey too. It’s just so pleasant to use and it’s comfortably up to date. I also like its tendency to push newer technologies.

Air is excellent

Gnome 2 was so good. It took years for gnome 3/40whatever to get to a point where I felt like it was worth switching back to.

Wow I thought this died years ago

I’m not sure that there would be a good reason to do it to be honest. Each engine is pretty mature and has been built into its design philosophy for years - nearing decades. If you have a different idea for how a browser works you’re probably still better off starting from scratch than trying to hodge podge your vision from an existing engine that is already unwieldy and has plenty of vulnerabilities (while more and more will appear as time goes on).

Vanilla gnome is pretty peak

We live in a post-world world

Holy shit please