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Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 12, 2023 12:51 UTC (Fri) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update by patrick_g
Parent article: Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

That’s hilarious and tragic at the same time.


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Catanzaro: GNOME Core Apps Update

Posted May 14, 2023 17:27 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

This is exactly why my Linux terminal is by choice... a Mac. I use each OS for what it's good at: Linux for the command line and macOS for the GUI and the "enterprise" cr*p. Combining the two and using the best of each has surprisingly fewer challenges that you would expect (Emacs' TRAMP and ssh saved my life). Another big difference is of course having to _pay_ for the Mac: not a coincidence.

A lot of "enterprise" users have no choice but to follow the same approach except Windows replaces macOS.

Nothing will change until some company starts making and _selling_ a coherent and polished "workstation" experience based on Linux. It may or may not be free as in free speech but it cannot be free as in free beer otherwise it will keep falling into the CADT trap https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html.

Linux-based products have been successfully marketed for mobile (Android) and "consumer" (ChromeOS) but nothing has really been done for "workstations" yet. Maybe the market is just too small. Or maybe the constant GNOME churn is bearable. Or maybe using a Mac or Windows as a Linux terminal is good enough. Or rather: a deadly combination of all the above will keep making sure the year of the Linux desktop never comes.


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