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GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support (9to5linux.com)
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Lots of nice little tweaks, but nothing major unless the lack of explicit sync was causing issues for you

But then again I guess that's the point of a point release.

I'm very much looking forward to 47/48, where the bulk of the Sovereign Tech Fund's contributions will come to fruition. It'll also happen to line up nicely with Fedora moving to DNF5 and away from their current god-awful installer.

Late 2024 and early 2025 will be a good time. And not just for Gnome either, much of the accessibility stack Gnome is working on is cross-desktop, and we'll all benefit from it. Linux is about to get a whole lot better for people with accessibility requirements.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Bugger. Was hoping it was a sync upgrade for cloud storage providers.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Why the downvotes? This guy wanted something else. What's wrong with that? In fact, I believe it opens up room for healthy discussion.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for caring @warmaster.

I don't mind the downvotes - it's part of life and I did kinda go off on a tangent which some people wouldn't have appreciated.

Still, the lack of a proper Google Drive (in my case) sync feature that has offline support is an impediment to migrating away from Windows. I'm a little puzzled as to why Google doesn't support it, yet they do a Mac version which is sort-of Linux. Maybe because there's so many Linux implementations?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Why even care about downvotes? He just wanted to share his thought and he did it. It wont affect him in anyway. I mean give this comment a 100 downvotes. Do I care? No.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It doesn't matter in this (as of now) unpopular thread. But it does matter for the Fediverse culture. Downvoting takes posts to the bottom, it drives attention away. Driving attention away from a post that promotes healthy discussion is the opposite of what the Fediverse is all about.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I see. In a greater scope it potentially hides a healthy discussion and thats unhealthy. I agree. Sorry ihad it so narrow. I didnt know that.

Im not playing this feels like its a great realization for my life too thank you for this

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think it was such a mistake to implement the downvote feature in the first place.

We've seen from Reddit that all it ends up being used for is downvoting people who ask questions and people with opinions different to the rest of the thread. The worst part is that downvoting kinda has "momentum" in that people are more likely to downvote and be angry at comments that have already accrued downvotes, even if in another thread in the same community wouldn't react in the same way.

And as much as people on Lemmy often act like we're oh so different from Reddit, we really aren't. It's practically identical.

If the comment is spam, hateful, doxxing, or otherwise against the rules, there's a report button for that. And if no mod acts on it, it's probably not a community a typical person would want to contribute to anyway.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I only down vote political BS in non political subs. Anytime I complain that shower thoughts or some other random sub shouldn't be the place to promote communism I get down voted

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It is excellent to see explicit sync. It is now is GNOME, KDE, XWayland, and Mesa. We just need the NVIDIA driver that supports it and that is coming soon I believe.

Most users will not see this until the fall distribution releases unfortunately. Rolling releases will be proving it all out soon though so it should be in good shape for the masses by year end.

Having these basic Wayland issues addressed and equalizing the experience between NVIDIA and other GPU hardware is a big win for everybody.

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