Linux users, united?

People in this community will cry over what init system or desktop environment somebody else uses.

British, not English.

I’ve been using it since 2016 and the only issue I’ve had (which has been fixed for a while now) was screen sharing in Discord.

It’s true that there are a couple of things missing or unstandardised as of now, but there’s also plenty missing from X11, so it’s swings and roundabouts.

There aren’t many distros that don’t have it by default.

Debian, a distro literally memed about for moving slowly, has defaulted to Wayland since 2019.

I didn’t say it’s not a thing, I said it’s not something you really have to worry about with modern displays.

I’d definitely worry about burn-in if you have Teams open for nine hours a day and the taskbar on.

And yet, the testing seems to show that’s not an issue.

I’ve not had a single phone that’s suffered burn in.

Regardless, I’d trust someone who reviews displays for a living over my own anecdote.

There are aftermarket mods to upgrade to a 1080p OLED (which you probably don’t want to do anyway because 1080p is much harder to run)

But you can’t drop the SD OLED’s display into the LCD model, no.

Even then, the concerns are way way way waaaaaay overblown.

Hardware unboxed have been purposely trying to burn in an OLED for thousands of hours, and it’s still barely perceptible even when you’re trying to look for it by taking a picture of the screen then applying filters to make it more visible. In real world usage its effectively impossible.

With any modern OLED display, burn in is something you don’t need to worry about.

Developers can do whatever the hell they like with their own software and shouldn’t let themselves be beholden to Nvidia.

Nvidia is being dragged kicking and screaming into using something that everyone else decided was the standard years ago, and that’s a good thing.

Once again dominated by stardew valley for me

Some Lenovos.

Regardless, that’s not what this headline means. It means install it and everything works, with no need for installing custom modules and stuff like that.

The idea is cool (not for me personally, but I see the merit).

But this project has flip-flopped its name, its flip-flopped its distro, its flip-flopped its Desktop Environment. Development has stopped and started multiple times.

I don’t think this distro or this project is something that can be relied upon.

Surely it’d make more sense to develop this as a theme that can be installed by Plasma users, rather than as an entire distro?

I gave it a little test 2 days ago. It’s lacking polish and a few options you’d expect to see.

The auto tiling works very well.

The PopOS theming often doesn’t work on apps you download, often they don’t even respect your dark/light mode preference.

I had one crash, but it was fine upon reboot.

Padding and visual consistency is a bit hit and miss.

Personally I’d say it’s not quite ready for my tastes, but it’s certainly usable. I can definitely see the complaints I have being rectified in pretty short order.

It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be.

Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they’re committed to.

Not everyone likes it, and I get it’s very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.

Extensions break with every update.

Sort of.

When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome’s default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you’re upgrading to the first Beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.

You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.

If you just use the stable branch, you’re unlikely to ever get broken extensions.

No, it isn’t.

Some parts are open source. Much of it isn’t. And it’s certainly not limited to just UX.

ChromeOS isn’t successful.

I use the flatpak so it makes no difference to me, but nice. That used to frustrated me.

That’s hard to do given the driver issues, how locked down phones are, and the fact you’re completely reliant on the benevolence of another faceless multi-billion (or trillion) dollar company.

It’s proprietary with some open source components.

They’ve said they aim to be fully open source some day

Blame the HDMI consortium. Bastards.

That said, I’m not sure why it’d be a deal-breaker. In 2026 this will be a low-end PC. It’s using a 2 year old laptop GPU that Valve has dumped more power into.