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this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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Personally, I'm disgusted by the "matter of fact" tone GNOME devs take to criticism only to be wrong in the end.
It's like, they dig their heels in so deep on dumb shit like "the dock should be on the side because vertical space is at a premium!" and then renege after years of users telling them they're wrong. Literally whoever is floating ideas like that on their team needs to be fired and blacklisted, but unfortunately they're probably promoted.
They also can't be arsed to include proper settings, so it's up to everyone else to pick up their slack.
At some point, it starts to feel like weaponized incompetence. I genuinely do not want GNOME's culture to pervade more parts of the free software ecosystem.