Nice, what’s your fastfetch config?

At least there’s Krita

To be fair, I probably wouldn’t feel the need to care about GNOME at all were it not for the fact that it still the standard DE for large, newbie-facing distros. I still favour the Windows paradigm, and a lot other people do too, and it doesn’t really matter whether it’s familiarity or actually preferring it (which I genuinely do). I don’t really appreciate hearing the standard GNOME-user polemics about it, especially when both sides usually end up acknowledging that it’s personal preference. I’m not saying you’re using that argument out of bad faith, but it’s the kind of thing I see a lot and it really bothers me, because it is/would be rightly criticised were it the other way round.

Point is, some people just genuinely don’t like GNOME, and it doesn’t have to be because of simplicity (Plasma is rarely referred to as simple), familiarity, or a hate-boner for GNOME or Mac.

You know you’re doing things right when there’s 2.5 million downloads to change a core paradigm of your DE.

Got a message for it from Ned Ludd 🔨

Gott strafe die VSA

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but does Sync seriously charge to remove ads that they added to browsing Lemmy in the first place? I get charging for Reddit due to the API, but I have a hard time believing the app is that much better than the existing FOSS apps such that the privacy tradeoff with ad trackers and/or the monetary cost worth it for, well, anyone really. Seems kinda scummy and antithetical to the philosophy that drives much of the Fediverse to me, yet I see so many people defending it in a way that reminds me of the rhetoric used to defend Reddit. Seriously, am I just a crazy person?