Correct, this two-sided discourse is due to a massive lack of communication on Mozilla’s part, leaving room for speculation.
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Correct, this two-sided discourse is due to a massive lack of communication on Mozilla’s part, leaving room for speculation.
Could you cite the reports for us?
Yeah MATE is lighter but the margin is small since it’s basically GNOME 2.
Still is almost as light performance and memory footprint wise when talking about GNOME 46.
Base GNOME isn’t much larger than MATE.
Good S0ix support. At the moment, Linux mostly fails to sleep correctly on modern S0ix laptops, which happens to be most modern laptops.
This means the battery drains incredibly fast, and S0ix features aren’t being used, which is unfortunate as it has potential for quick wake, lid closed actions and limiting battery drain while asleep (since S0ix can eventually hibernate automatically from a sleep state)
Also the boot loader could be improved, systemd-boot needs to support secure boot natively so we can be rid of the slow, ancient and scary-looking GRUB.
ITT: It’s sketchy and will possibly mess with your Wayland set up.
There’s no way to otherwise make this work for many users. They can use Tor if they’re worried.
You’re talking about extensions.
Extensions that don’t come from GNOME are not supported at all, they’ve made that clear. If they wanted to, they could just stop allowing third party extensions altogether.
This is because they hook directly into GNOME Shell’s’ internal JS, which changes every release as they refactor it for performance or feature changes. Developers have a few months before release to adjust their extensions for the newer version.
Personally, I just raw dog vanilla GNOME for stability, and it works fine.
I personally love it, I use Linux for work and I need it to be concise, consistent and stable.
Given its icon, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s religious-themed :P
I’m a full-stack software developer working in the financial sector, their statement is factual.
Companies will never want to take on liability that has the potential to bankrupt them. It is in their best interest to not reveal the version of libraries they are using as some versions may have publicly known vulnerabilities, and it would make it incredibly easy for attackers to build an exploit chain if they knew the exact versions being used.
Securing client code is just as important as securing server code, as you don’t want to expose your users to potential XSS attacks that could affect the way the page gets displayed, or worse, leak their credentials to a third party. If this happened in the EU or some parts of Canada, and it’s been found that the company reduced their threat model “for the sake of openness”, they would likely be fined into bankruptcy or forced to leave the market.
Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where your interests and ethics will never be aligned with those of service owners as they are held to a certain standard by privacy laws and other regulations.
Omg I’m so sorry, no you’re right, fuck GNOME, all its devs are doodoofards! /s
I like the opinionated nature of GNOME, I don’t have time to configure my desktop, I just need to do work and get paid.
They lost me when they started letting Nazis sit at the table.
I mean it’s good for predicting climate models, but it certainly uses a lot of power to do so, which is the main issue with AI.
Gotta love circular reporting.