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  • The something that sucks is lack of money. Paying developers to do work definitely helps. It’s unfair to level unconstructive critique at the end result when it hasn’t ever had the same opportunity to thrive that the paid software you’re comparing it to had.

    Serif produced a nice software suite by paying developers. They got that money from investors who made it by exploiting people (like every corporation) and then exploited their workers and customers in turn. While this resulted in a relatively nicer alternative to Adobe shit, it still isn’t ideal.

    Imagine if GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita all had the kind of financial support that corporations do. Blender and the community supporting them are figuring it out to some extent, and now Blender has essentially either matched or eclipsed the corporate competition. This is absolutely possible for other FOSS software, but we the community need to be there for them financially too.



  • gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn’t use extensions

    This is patently untrue. The GNOME developers even maintain their own repository with a bunch of extensions for people to use. Why would they do so if they didn’t want anyone to use them?

    Do extensions break on GNOME major version upgrades? Sometimes, yeah. Nobody is forced to upgrade if they don’t want to, and it’s not like you log into your desktop one day to be surprised with a broken system. There’s even an upgrade assistant that will tell you prior to an upgrade if any extensions will break.

    This pervasive loud minority of whiny complainers spreading nonsense about GNOME is annoying. It’s free software; don’t use it if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But don’t spread lies about it, that’s childish.