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Chromebooks are a privacy nightmare and have shitty lifespans though. It’s a poor comparison too because at this point you’re buying new hardware instead of installing different software.

Modern distros are very resilient as long as you stick to the big ones, maybe even more than windows. There’s plenty of benefits for regular people too. A few off the top of my mind, the OS doesn’t have ads, no privacy minefield, less malware. Gotta keep in mind that at the end of the day, most people only use their pc to open the browser.

I highly doubt there isn’t an opened issue about it.

There’s actually not. But there’s an open MR.

Well the first step would probably be to open an issue.

Like I said already: I have never had that problem in any other project.

If you think there’s a problem, you should report it.

If they don’t see my worth or I am actually worthless to have around I’ll search for someplace else.

Gotta stick around to find out.

It’s like this everywhere, you’ll always be initially met with circumspection. Passer-by contributions are not a help, helping out new contributors is a lot of effort that not every maintainer wants to deal with. You want to help, that’s great, but you’re not entitled to helping.

Gnome might be a club, but it’s definitely not closed, you just need to put in the effort to show you’re worth having around.

Well as far as i can see you’ve only had a problem with evince, which is retired btw. Gnome isn’t a giant blob, each maintainer handles their project in their own way.

With that both statements could have some truth: 5/6 MRs could be merged and it could still be that they dislike external contributions.

External contributions aren’t really a thing, 99% of contributions come from people that have been contributing for a while.

As for your MR, you need to go where help is actually wanted, solve issues nobody has gotten to yet. Newer projects are typically easier to contribute to. Probably inquire a bit about the maintainers and project direction in general first.

Gnome is a very large project with hundreds of different developers and maintainers. I can’t speak to your experience but you should avoid generalizing like that, also filing a complaint is always an option; there’s a few people over the years that have been kicked out.

5/6 of MRs get merged…

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Tilda is barely maintained anymore, you can get Tilix that has the same quake like feature. You can also add the quake terminal extension to your favorite alternative if you use gnome.

Yeah sorta. First you gotta know what the problem is, good luck getting the average user to figure out the UI looks off because of the padding. Then you gotta know where and how you need to change it to make it better.

Customizing is cool for power users that like to fiddle with their settings, however it can’t replace good defaults; not that I have anything against the defaults in this case…

Defaults matter, most people never bother customizing.

Use diff patches and automate with some bash scripting.

Nautilus has empty space on the sides these days to paste.

Never thought about making the home folders flatcase, thanks, takes all of 2 minutes btw.
If anybody else wants to do it, remember to edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs with your new flatcase folders.

With Gnome reducing customizability

If you’re expecting more customization from cosmic I have bad news for you…

having 5-year old bugs never get fixed

Bugs aren’t prioritized by age.

breaking necessary extensions every update

Gnome breaks every extension on major updates, this is by design to force the extension maintainer to make sure their shit works with the latest version.

moving off gnome was was warranted

I strongly doubt any reason you cited was the linchpin for Cosmic moving off Gnome. It’s probably simply that they want more control and to do things their way. Gnome is a project that has thousands of people involved, with plenty of diverging opinions; getting stuff to change to fit your wants is gonna be an uphill battle each time.

Rust is very hyped, but it’s not very popular, the TIOBE index has it at 1.5% coming in #14. Which is paltry in comparison to Python, C and C++.

As for whether or not it will replace C in systems, time will tell.

The problems come when you don’t support anything other than rust. Higher level languages are better suited for trivial applications. Rust isn’t exactly a very popular language either so you’re not going to attract contributions from random Joe #3. Cosmic’s best hope is to attract the attention of the big players and get enterprise support, because random users just don’t give a shit about the security upsides of Rust and will judge the DE solely based on its looks and features.