I know how tempting it is to share things you absolutely hate on social media.

But I challenge you to instead share things you absolutely love.

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

When I started experimenting with #Linux again in 2024, I was very impressed at how mature everything had become since I last tried it in the mid-00s. The biggest surprise, though, was #GNOME. It had a level of intentionality and clarity of vision that far exceeded my expectations of a FLOSS project. It made me feel welcome and comfortable.

To the developers of @gnome : Thank you for having the audacity to strive for simplicity in the face of continued criticism from the community. It matters.

Quick, tell me which selection will be pasted if I press the middle button of my mouse.

People either remember the '90s, where applications would only have one selection; or they remember when all they did was selecting text to and from the terminal and didn't have more than two windows. Once applications started retaining their own selected text, it was all over.

Have you all complained enough about a default setting being changed in a desktop environment that you do not actually use? It's just ridiculous.

#Linux #GNOME

Things you should not say on #Mastodon:

Middle click means "open in new tab" to me and many other users - no mater if they use #Linux, #macOS or #Windows. I see it as a logical consequence that #Gnome and #Firefox are willing to streamline the behavior of the middle click, so that it works in a consistent way in all applications that utilize tabs, even if this means to *disable a feature in a default configuration* .

Thanks, @rohare for clarifying.

The whole situation⁰ around the mouse paste easter egg¹ is so, so ridiculous.

Let's make it into a meme!  

#GNOME #Meme #X #easterEgg

＂… Nearly two dozen different Windows-like UIs represents a titanic waste of programmer effort, skill, and time. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, working hard for decades… but all on different projects, meaning that none of them achieve greatness. …＂

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ @lproven

(I thought I boosted this seven weeks ago. Mind playing tricks on me. It's one of a few things on my ridiculously long reading list that I actually do keep revisiting. I don't know what to think. I'm reading it in overlapping chunks.)

#desktop #Lumina #Windows #KDE #Plasma #Trinity #GNOME #MATE #Xfce #LXDE #Cinnamon #Budgie #LXQt #Deepin #Enlightenment #Equinox #IceWM #JWM #GNU #FOSS #Linux