I had never heard of stable flies before. Here we have horse flies that are apparently similar but not the same species as stable flies.

I’m not sure I made my point very well:

There was no attempt at making a mobile or tablet OS, they actually succeeded in unifying the code base. To this day there is only one operating system and it runs everything that runs “windows”. This is no different than the way Linux works or Apple’s Darwin works. That’s what they set out to achieve at Windows Vista and what they succeeded at around the time of the Xbox One. At that time, I as a developer could write one app and it would run on a Windows phone, a Windows tablet, the Xbox, and Windows PCs. Then they chose to kill that paradigm in favor of what we have today.

That’s what I was trying to point out, this was an intentional choice. They could go back to making Windows phones and tablets and shit and letting the unified app platform work the way it was supposed to at any time but they continue to choose not to.

It’s probably worth pointing out that Windows has very much not been developed for free. Up until Windows 8 and still today in some cases Windows license cost in the neighborhood of $250, and there are parts of the OS that have not changed since Windows 95, the format hard drive dialogue for instance. That’s before we even start mentioning how much they took from IBM to develop Windows secretly while helping IBM develop OS/2.

The App Store itself was the product of a creation of a unified code base between Xbox and Windows Phone and Windows and Windows RT, Then they threw that out with the bathwater because fuck Windows Phone for some reason.

A couple other users and I have found that it seems to depend on how you got to the post and that it’s not limited to Voyager.

Still just a static image for me on Voyager. I guess it wasn’t just a yesterday problem.

I use Voyager and I’ve consistently have this issue specifically with things posted on Lemmy.today today.

The point of Gnome is that you can’t do those things without extensions. It makes it way harder for grandma to fuck something up. But you can still do them. On the other hand I have found things that are easy to customize in Gnome with extensions, like laptop trackpad gestures, that are nonexistent in KDE with or without extensions as far as I can tell.

But like I said before, to each their own. We are just talking about two different approaches to the same solution. I often recommend KDE to people who are coming over from Windows, but after over 25 years of trying different ones I keep going back to Gnome personally. The only major exception was when Gnome 3 came out I spent several years on Mate (a fork of Gnome 2).

That was also my first thought when reading the headline, but this paper is specifically discussing that there may be more going on than previously thought.

How is that different than KDE? You can recreate the KDE stock layout in Gnome too.

I’ve only seen this happen with a prompt.

Crunchy peanut butter is a myth, it’s just creamy peanut butter with peanuts added back in.

The MythBusters tested having things fall out of a freezer onto a dog… it wasn’t pretty.

There is a whole extensions library for Gnome for customization.

And I had that same reaction when you said Gnome wasn’t customizable.

That’s honestly exactly how I would describe KDE, but to each their own!

What’s your beef with Gnome?

Tribal nations also have their own plates in some cases. Mine does.

Here is some 40 volume hair bleach, which is 12% peroxide. I am fairly certain you can get higher too. Incidentally this is good for retro-brighting.

The number of times I’ve seen a fix not get pushed because somebody got laid off is a lot higher than you might think.

Talk about a company that has enshitified, I had an LG TV from 2008 that still worked when I gave it away a couple years ago, the LG TV I bought in 2019 has already died.