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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

>Gets (in my opinion rightfully) mad that someone called their preferred software dumb and says that it works just good for them
>Literally does the same for different software in the next statement

Why are some people like this… No, Gnome, KDE or some other stuff is not obviously bad, otherwise there wouldn't be tons of people that really do know the different options be using and enjoying it. Just let people use it. You can list advantages and disavantages and why you personally prefer something else, but don't call it outright bad or insult the users…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just let people use it.

In fact many "linux user" won't tolerate others' software :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OP called users of the software stupid, not the software. While some of what gnome is is defensible and I just don't like it, like having very little in the way of configuration options, the other part, like being unwilling to implement server-side decorations, makes it plain bad software. There's a reason you hear people reply "well just don't use gnome" to claims of "wayland is broken".

Software can, indeed, be objectively bad. "Oh tastes just differ" is an appeal to false civility: No, if your bridge doesn't get people across the river I don't care how pretty it looks it's broken. It might be a beautiful art piece, but it definitely isn't a bridge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

OP called users of the software stupid, not the software.

(in my opinion the software is stupid, and users of stupid software are stupid :) because desktop environment is inefficient compared to pure window manager, and keyboard-based wm)

Please,

Just use what you want.