Extensions can crash your system on GNOME as they modify the shell itself, so running incompatible extensions is a real problem. The upside to this is that when you find an extension and it has your version on it, it’s guaranteed to run. Fyi you can easilly override the version requirements.
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GNOME major upgrades (v48, v49…) always break extensions by design to force the extension maintainers to update. It’s generally recommended to hold off on upgrading for a few weeks to give maintainers time to update their extensions.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
82·5 days agoIt’s against their interest to offer this as they have everything to gain by making you install their proprietary application and capturing you inside their ecosystem where they don’t have to compete fairly. Would Steam be in the position it’s in if you didn’t have to install it to download your games?
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Linux•Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Drive Growth
2·5 days agoGNOME’s always been customizable with gsettings and extensions, the problem is that the options aren’t exposed in the user settings and in the case of the extensions they are only available through third party software. The upside to this is that the desktop environment is leaner which allows faster development and generally less bugs.
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Linux•Exploring Dash to Dock: (Probably) The Most Downloaded GNOME Extension
4·6 days agoWhy unfortunately? GNOME puts a lot of work in accessibility and being viable on every device.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words
3·6 days agoFor mbin:
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Linux•Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Drive Growth
4·6 days agoHow bad can it be? It’s just GNOME with a few extensions to make it look like windows.
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Linux•GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux
21·13 days agoAs I explained elsewhere there is no official app to change this setting
You’re skipping a step here, first a decision needs to be made on whether or not the default will change, then and only then can they decide whether it’s worth adding something like a toggle to the mouse settings panel, which would be trivial btw.
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Games@lemmy.world•Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated
75·18 days agoSteam reviews aren’t really a good quality metric, a 6/10 game can have 95% ratings, it’s the rotten tomatoes of video games.
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Linux•44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust
5·22 days agoYou could always read the original source and find out the intent, but who has time for that?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
56·28 days agoPart of the problem here is that those extra permissions weren’t required if you used Apple’s ad service. They stifled competition in their own favor.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
49·1 month agoIt’s Microsoft, they have all the data. And quite frankly it doesn’t surprise even a little bit, i doubt even 5% of people moved around the taskbar, people are just ready to hitch themselves to every bandwagon they see shitting on Microsoft.
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Linux•New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code
4·1 month agoYes they actually review the extensions, you’ll find more information on the blogpost from last week.
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Linux•New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code
15·1 month agoGNOME manually reviews every extension, and they understandably don’t want to review AI generated code.
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Linux•Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland
4·1 month agoIt’s disabled by default upstream as it’s still considered experimental, some distributions choose to override the upstream default.
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Thanks. But in all seriousness i was trying to convey that your initial argument - experienced users not enabling pkgstats didn’t make much sense. It’s just funny in this case because you’ve been using arch for a decade and yet don’t know this basic thing.
Wouldn’t that mean the opposite - that you are actually not very experienced, or knowledgeable at least about arch? I’ve been using arch for a couple of years and “heard” of it just fine.
The majority of users, especially experienced ones don’t enable pkgstats.
Why would an experienced user not enable pkgstats? Anyways the biggest bias here is that arch inherently caters to power users which are going to have very different needs and likes than regular people.
Fractional scaling is a compositor issue, not a linux issue, so in this case kwin. But yes, fractional scaling in general is always problematic as there’s no way to cleanly multiply pixels by fractions, so you get wonky fonts, UI that doesn’t quite fit… and whatever hacks your compositor has on top to make it look better, it’s best to avoid it if possible and only increase the font size.
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