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  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•now I know whyEnglish
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    5 days ago

    My problem with Gnome is the foundation itself.

    They act like they know best, and rarely listen to user feedback.

    They act like Apple, and that is very bad.

    Not only that, but they also act like they are the default and only desktop on Linux, and rarely if ever cooperate with other desktop groups to make things work smoothly.

    They are dragged kicking and screaming into following standards, and were the biggest source of NACKs (effectively a “veto”) on the Wayland protocol and a huge reason why Wayland still isn’t complete after over a decade of design.

    The gnome desktop is pretty, but it is not functional. You can make it functional by installing gobs of extensions, but those extensions don’t follow a cohesive workflow concept, and often break with updates. It’s like trying to mod Skyrim or Minecraft.

    To contrast that, KDE:

    • Explicitly listens to its users and has scheduled times for specifically taking in user feedback (within the scope of broad goals)

    • Actively works to be interoperable with other environments

    • Follows standards and pushes them forward

    • Has all the functionality out of the box, and can be made pretty with extensions/assets (the inverse of Gnome).

    • Functionality mostly doesnt break on updates unless it’s major (like switching to Wayland as the primary development target).

  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the point of Windows recall?English
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    12 days ago

    What happens when their customers aren’t their users but instead are government or other corporate entities - or themselves?

    Windows recall stores the data locally, but what telemetrically is it sending back? Or if its sending nothing today, what will they change it to send tomorrow? Fodder for AI training data? Sensitive secret or proprietary information?

    The worst part about all of this is even if they are being absolutely and completely honest, there is no verifiable way for us to prove this because all of their code is closed source and I imagine to some capacity obfuscated.

    So the natural assumption here is that, similar to free-as-in-beer products, we are the product and Windows is the platform by which we are being served.