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**sri** @sri · Feb 17

@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/13/0150244/is-it-time-for-a-change-in-gnome-leadership.
Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.

tech.slashdot.orgIs It Time For a Change In GNOME Leadership? - SlashdotLongtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers. Yes, there are other desktop GUIs, such as MATE, and the lightweight Xfce, which are valuable options when low overhead is...

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**Emmanuele Bassi** @ebassi@mastodon.social · Feb 17

Feb 17

Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi@mastodon.social

@sri @nekohayo it's been nearly 15 years, and these people are still absolutely obsessed with the 3.0 release. It's hilarious how much we live rent free in their head.

sri @sri@floss.social

@ebassi @nekohayo
Oh there are so many wonderful hilarious quotes from that thread. Makes me laugh.
"MATE and XFCE are fine for the vast majority of users. For everyone else who needs that last 3% of functionality there's KDE. GNOME has run its course and should be allowed to die in irrelevance for what it did to us regarding systemd."

KDE is only worth 3% over the functionality of MATE and XFCE.

Feb 17, 2025, 10:51 PM··Tuba

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