Problem is that if you have a critical application (like banking) that relies on Google services you're SOL.

It's Apple or Google at that point.

Oh they finally fixed the bloody dock. I used it ages ago when it was still oval and those square icons looked terrible on it. This is much better.

Have they given any updates on HDR support? I remember them mentioning years back that they planned it for the final release but I've not heard anything since.

They also don't have to sign it.

Maybe I've just used MacOS so long that I'm out of touch, but installing unsigned applications is effectively a mild annoyance.

The great thing about the core philosophy of unix is that you could easily do what you suggest and maintain compatibility with applications that rely on the traditional coreutils (Which is the major reason why no one will really suggest changing the traditional syntax. It'll break way too much.).

Just build a series of applications that actively translates your "less ambiguous" commands into traditional syntax. I've done it for a number of things where the syntax is long and hard to remember.

In fact I think a "nuutilus" would actually be fairly well received for distributions that are more new user focused and a pretty worthwhile endeavor.

What benefit would federating it bring?

The ability to self-host your own FOSS wiki already exists and has for over two decades. It's called MediaWiki.

You could have federated accounts I guess but do editors on the Doctor Who wiki really need the ability to see posts on Mastadon or edit pages on the That 70's Wiki?

Message Boards are fundamentally different and I don't see a lot of value in federating them considering the big message board platform (phpBB) has 25 years of development and is GPL.

Message Boards are more elaborate versions of subreddits/communities. In all of those instances there is still a single entity that has "all the power in the forum". You can join another lemmy server, but the admin of that community is still the admin, and the entity controlling the server that community is on likewise, controls the community.

I guess you could have a universal account that could be used across different message boards, but Personally I'd hate that.

I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).

Here's a list of issues I had:

• Was forced to not encrypt my system because for some reason the unlock screen rarely recognized my keyboard was connected and I couldn't input the password. I would have to turn on the computer, then reboot at least once to get it to work.
• The absolute confusion surrounding YaST when I tried it out. The community made it sound like the best thing about openSUSE, but also don't use it because it's terrible. Apparently it's being depreciated now. Don't want to learn an entire system just for it to be removed.
• I didn't experience any issues with this but it makes me nervous: Rolling Release + Required (for me) Community Repos. Meanwhile the standard release is slower than Fedora
• This one is a big "first world problem" but it really annoyed me. zypper, it's one of the longest package manager names, and i can't tab to autocomplete because there are other packages with similar names.

Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn't really worth the effort when my main issue was: "The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn't really impact my system."

I mean Chromium is an open source project, developers don't have to do whatever Google demands.

I know Brave still supports it alongside their own ad-blocker, but apparently the CEO is a dick so people don't want to use it for that reason.

Rhythmbox has been my main music app for over 15 years now. Every now and then I'll check out other options but I always end up back after a couple days.

I do wish they would give the UI some attention. Nothing major, just a few visual tweaks to bring it inline with modern Gnome (the alternative toolbar plugin is really close)

More customization = Higher chance something breaks.

Admittedly, chances are it's just something minor like your icons looking weird or transparency breaking, and it's not like it happens very often. However I have had it happen while I'm trying to focus on something and it's definitely an annoyance I could do without.

I like that I can customize on the off chance that I need to fuck with something. But defaults have been getting better and better so i've done it less and less.

This is Gnomes biggest advantage to be honest. They have a singular vision of how they want their product to work and they aren't concerned with edge uses.

I enjoy elements of so many DEs but I keep coming back to gnome because it's just so well executed over the others.

Because it's not "just a fancy interface"?

It makes the entire process from purchase to playing completely painless, on top of a large community of people, guides, achievements, etc. I think I'd maybe improve my performance by like...a fraction of a frame per second. Good trade off.

And as others have mentioned, Lutris does a good job if you don't want steam.