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This person should have their computer taken away from them lmao.

GNOME doesn't have a minimize and maximize button because they're not needed. If you want to hide a window in GNOME you either can physically hide it using the window context menu either in the app or through the shell or you can go into shell overview and throw it into another workspace.

Me "minimizing" an app on GNOME

It's 2024, people expect apps to have little icons near the WiFi icon. Why is Gnome throwing out decades of people's training and expectations? Wait, what's that?

Computer Science has devolved into training people to accept private capital products as philosophy and disregard all other things. There is no system tray in GNOME because there is no accepted system tray protocol on GNU/Linux. Designing for background apps that run without a window open isn't part of GNOME design and is part of the shitty slow proprietary OS interface that demands that all chromium junkware be open at all times to make your computer seem slow so you buy a new one.

Is this a fair comparison? No. Do I care? Yeah, obviously.

Summarizes this whole shitty blog post.

Here's an evergreen quote from 2005 about the whole Gnome situation:

I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

Please, just tell people to use KDE.

Linus

Here is a quote from 2005 (when GNOME 3 wasn't even an entity) checkmate gnome liberals!!!