Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted (blogs.gnome.org)

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Imagine spending 3+ years on staying mad at GNOME to release the most underwhelming software imaginable.

System76 is best known for spreading misinfo and lies about GNOME and other upstreams, selling overpriced re-branded clevos, "being made in America", loving rust and hyping on twitter and mastodon.

Most of the "backlash" against GNOME comes from the a community that has more opinions than users or just straight up misinformation and spite.

COSMIC is very poorly designed, it might be written in the "memory-safe programming language" but it's clear that they don't have a design backbone. They basically created the caricature of GNOME's adwaita but now you can paint your windows in whatever barf-inducing color you want.

They built an entire new desktop from scratch rather than work with GNOME or KDE and in that amount of time, literally every issue that sparked that redesign was resolved upstream in both aforementioned desktops.

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[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They really went and invented their own desktop just because they got mad that they had to spend an evening or two every 6 months to port their gnome extension.

There is a schadenfreude I feel now that they've decided to take on a job that nobody wants: making a desktop for a userbase with more complaints than users.

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