Today is the day! Gnome 50 should be officially released today! I have been running the RC for a couple of weeks now & only needed to update the metadata.json files to “50”….all of my extensions worked!
Seems to be a solid release…I’ve been Wayland only for a couple of years now, so the move to Wayland only was just business as usual for me.
As of this hour, 50 is still only in Gnome-unstable with RC1 (from early March)….I expect that to change in a couple of days…. Looks to be a smooth release.
Wow, Wayland-only.. Let’s see how that plays out with KDE doing the same later this year. For all the things that are “better”, it’s the bits that are missing, which are actively detrimental to those who have specific requirements (gamma control for high contrast visual impairment needs in low vision for example). For a “set it for forget it” DE, I’d probably use Gnome on a low-work laptop, always good to see competition, sticking with KDE for my main work though.
Welllllll….. in the past, having extensions work was really hit-or-miss, so doing a minor edit (and running a RC….the extension developers just are not ready yet) to have all the ones I use work— is just nice.
I’ve been with Gnome since the 1.x.x days….never tried KDE (I came from the MacOS world in the 90’s & early 00’s), so that’s out of my experience….but, with different people liking different things………… Run what you like & be easy on people who like different things.
Besides wanting to try a different DE, on KDE there is a need to install many gtk packages for compatibility, but generally not the other way around with qt packages on GNOME, so I was always curious
My post was not meant as attack personally so i am sorry if you got that idea. It’s just me having bad experience with gnome and wanted to make a bit fun of it.
Everyone has the free choice of course and that is a great thing in open source software. Someone likes gnome, someone kde or cosmic.
Understood……I’ve been testing for Gnome for over 20 years (started when I was in Ubuntu-testing)….so it is very familiar to me. I was conversing with a developer a couple of nights ago about a bug that I had found. We try very hard to squash as many bugs as we can….I’m sad you had a bad experience.
You do realize that bricks are probably at least 10% air space, right?
(and yes, i am in a heckling mood)
It’s great to see KDE and Gnome release on the same day, wonder whose idea that was?
I use dinosaur-period Gnome at work and swear at it every couple of minutes.
After installing EOS with Gnome 49 on my spare laptop (just to try it out, for the sake of diversity), I swear at it every couple of seconds. I’ll tax my masochism to the max, I guess, and update that system to Gnome 50.
Notwithstanding, good sailing to y’all feeling comfortable with Gnome!
Acrually (not being a Gnome user), the most astonishing thing is to NOT see everyone complaining about their broken extensions. That’s a major improvement.
I have had EOS with gnome installed in virtualbox now for about a year or so and have had no issue’s.I have also been using Fedora with gnome for many years and the main issue i see from most is they update to a newer version and do not make sure there extensions have been updated before hand.
(Although I notice that you sneaked into the NYE party here