New installs, or new users? I’d assume the latter?

Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

Sure. Does the Gitlab -> GitHub redirect also long predate the rise in AI scrapers?

I know of no such increase.

If you haven’t been staying up to date, maybe do that before dismissing explanations? The increase in scraping is such a massive issue that it’s been discussed to death again and again, and big parts of the open internet has changed.

You’re basically calling bullshit on a charity having increased fuel prices, because you’re not aware of any Iran conflict!

Ah, and why isn’t it reasonable to assume that the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months, is also hitting GNOME? Why do you think they are exempt, when even big commercial platforms are struggling with the amount of traffic generated by AI scrapers?

Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.

It’s not stupid insofar that it is an additional fingerprintable data point. But it’s obviously still much harder to fingerprint you if many users share the same value that you have, so it is invalid.

You’re approaching this with an everyday definition of “proposal”, but in the industry that term is overloaded with more specific meanings.

If you asked 100 random devs, I have no doubt that the majority would call a PR to be something much more concrete than a proposal.

This was honestly obvious to anyone who read his many LKML gaffes. There’s no way to maintain a healthy psyche if you constantly butt heads with everyone in your field, while a portion of your “fan base” keeps fueling your non-compromising egocentric views.

Everyone needs a reality check every now and then.

The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).

But I’d love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!

Have you heard the good news of our Lord and Savior, atomic Fedora versions? It’s even easier there because the driver is part of the image itself, and rollbacks are as easy as selecting a different entry in the boot manager.

I’m pretty sure you can live without the minimize button.

I know it’s not a big deal, but this approach is absolutely insane to me.

“Sure there’s a normal feature that a large portion of PC users use semi-regularly - but the GNOME devs don’t like it, so why don’t you just learn to live without it!”

It’s pretty much undeniable that the GPL has been a massive driving force behind companies giving back to projects, and it’s similarly undeniable that MIT-licensed projects have fewer comparable contributions.

Sure, the community can stay on the open version, but it will still be companies mostly taking without giving back.

I’m on version 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 already!

I’m not saying you’re wrong on all or even most points, but just by itself this comment is basically a marketing post.

KDE is relatively smaller in scope than GNOME.

By what measure, and which parts of the projects are you taking into account?

Besides, GNOME has taken on its own hurdles like compatibility across devices,[…]

KDE has also taken on its own hurdles. By the way, compatibility across devices is one of the best examples of feature creep if you don’t need it, as most Desktop users don’t!

[…]the userbase is also different so they’re less likely to contribute towards areas like gaming for example.

Don’t see how that’s relevant to the development speed of the environments and their customizability.

What lets GNOME dominate developer wise right now[…]

Again, by what measure? Does it result in faster development of helpful features for my workflow?

[…]and outreach programs like GNOME circle.

KDE also has outreach programs, so this also doesn’t show much.

The development of KDE doesn’t seem any slower to me than Gnome. But it does support my workflow much better due to the customization options!

When using gamescope, there’s also --force-grab-cursor: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope#Cursor_doesn’t_behave_properly

I don’t understand how they’re still doing it. This is literally the reason I see most often for people turning away from Ubuntu.

They must really expect to be able to thoroughly enshittify Snaps, otherwise it can’t be worth it for them.

and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed

The performance regression? It hasn’t been fixed.

You know - when you list two points, and I refer to those two points in my response, maybe assume that I’m responding in the same order you listed?

Actually that is not too far off from being true.

No, it absolutely is very far off, unless you find actual studies & user feedback. Lets not do weird mental gymnastics to find logic in pure hyperbole. You gotta give me way more than one 1-week-old bug, and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed. Bugs are going to happen in software that is worked on.

The reason X was stable for a long time is because many new & nowadays important features (like fractional scaling) weren’t being worked on, the ecosystem was mostly frozen. There’s more churn around Wayland because it’s newer & supports more (and often structurally much better) approaches to solving its problems. Don’t want to get caught in that? Maybe don’t use a distro that is specifically known for shipping new software very quickly.

Ah yes, I forgot that all Nvidia users also use their internal Intel graphics card. How could I?

Ah, if it’s not working right for you, it obviously means it’s not working right for 60% of people.

What’s that? The situation has improved dramatically over the last two years, and many happily use Nvidia cards with Wayland without issues, me included? No, can’t be the case, you still have issues.