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  • shiroininja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    6 months ago

    Omg i just tried 24.04 in a vm for testing. I really hate the direction they’re taking gnome. I know they’re trying this minimalist thing, but it’s horrendous. I’ve been gone for a few releases, and this is the first time I’ve used Ubuntu and thought “this is garbage”. Like it’s become so dumbed down.

    Maybe my tastes have changed, I dunno

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
      15·
      6 months ago

      GNOME and its applications have been headed in that direction for a while now, but I’m not sure Canonical are behind those changes. If they were, I’m sure they would have done something about GNOME apps looking alien on Xubuntu, for example.

      Source

      As that link suggests, the Mint team are looking to produce apps that run on any desktop environment, forking GNOME apps that don’t comply with that. Hopefully that keeps the momentum going for that sort of thing.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Ooh. I have noticed that some apps like gnome-disk-utility runs without the whole Gnome stack. I think that’s a really good direction.