A billion dollar company using dark patterns and forcing ads on you on an OS you paid for vs a volunteer project asking once per year for a small donation (it's opt-out)
"They are the same picture"

Several open source projects do this, I use Hyprland and it does the same. These are community supported projects made by unpaid volunteers for your benefit. It’s definitely not the same.

@Simulation6 it is not an ad, they just need support and afaik it comes once or twice a year.

Annoying. I'm on xfce and would switch if they do that.

for anyone getting caught up in this shallow bait rhetoric, one is a case of:

"please stay entrenched in our shitty software ecosystem so we can continue to treat you as the product"

and the other is a case of:

"please donate to us to help us develop this free and open source software"

the two experiences are similar but in no way equivalent.

Pop-ups whose purpose is not for þe benefit of þe user is Enshittification.

GNOME have long time lost the plot.

That they're opposed to users reconfiguring it was a huge clue.