muhyb

I only used BASIC to open infinite windows to crash Windows 95.

Stonks

I know it's relatively a recent concept but they can always say "these are our apps and they are well integrated in our DE" instead of making them inseparable part of the DE. They probably want to reach a standard like MacOS, and that's not a bad thing but that restricts the developers.

I always preferred GTK over Qt and I still do, however I can understand the developers who want to use another framework.

While the intention is respectable, there are still Qt apps with no GTK equivalent or vice versa. If you need those, you still cannot go pure GTK or pure Qt. It's a dream.

I don’t think I worried about “DE bloat” any time in the past ten years. Might be different if I was using Raspi desktop. :)

Well, I'm a happy WM user since 2014 as well (GNOME 2.32 was my last favourite DE on my main machine) but I still have to install KDE or GNOME bloat. Only thing I can do about that is using flatpaks for those programs but I prefer package manager. Flatpaks are heavy, slow updating and use more space.

While I wouldn't oppose the idea of a pre-installed music player, I believe Rhythmbox was never a core application. I hope they won't make a music player a core app because you cannot uninstall them because of dependencies. Also the first impression is the distro's concern not GNOME's. I support modularism instead of making softwares bundle in a bundle. For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat. For GNOME, they are in too deep for dependencies, as for KDE.

I appreciate GNOME's work for simplicity, but I don't appreciate their dependency hell.

Close, but sushi is for previews, though technically you can run the whole file as a preview I think.

I guess the author of the article has reacted too much. The audio player they mentioned is a music player. At this point a simple audio player suits GNOME more after all of those simplifications they made for core applications.

What's wrong with that? If you think it's bloat, GNOME has tons of that and this is just a minor one. I wouldn't be surprised if Decibels integrated into Nautilus to play audio files directly in the file manager. Probably more beneficial for mobile than desktop though.

Heh, that's one way to do it I guess. It would be more impressive with this doompdf format though, especially with ASCII.

So, soon we'll see Bad Apple in PDF too. If it isn't already out there.

I don't think so, since they specifically ask you to connect the internet via mobile data for authentication.

Needs another phone number with another SIM card.

If you have unlocked another one in less than 12 months ago, you cannot unlock it. They started to restrict unlocking bottloader even more and it's now 1 unlock per account in 1 year. It sucks.