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People making an informed choice about linux vs windows are a minority, the majority just don’t realize switching is even an option let alone have the technical know-how to go through with it. As long as windows comes pre installed, nothing will touch its hegemony.

It’s arch KDE under the hood, as long as a terminal is accessible and you have root privileges you could probably run an airplane on it if you’d like. The relevant point is the default setting, the thing that nobody changes and why google’s paying apple 18 billion per year.

Doesn’t it boot straight into steam big picture? That alone should be a deterrent to most people wanting to run it as a desktop OS.

The cost is actually negative given that they get to pre-install whatever software they want into it.

Ubuntu is based on Debian so regular Mint is actually 2 levels down from upstream. But Mint has started offering a Debian base recently called LMDE if you want to check it out.

As for whether Arch is bad for beginners. Kinda. It’s a DIY distro, assuming you can follow tutorials and guides it’s pretty straight forward, especially with the archinstall script. But if you’re uncomfortable with a terminal install, you can try out EndeavourOS which features a full gui install and a few tweaks to make it easier on beginners.

Chromebooks are a privacy nightmare and have shitty lifespans though. It’s a poor comparison too because at this point you’re buying new hardware instead of installing different software.

Modern distros are very resilient as long as you stick to the big ones, maybe even more than windows. There’s plenty of benefits for regular people too. A few off the top of my mind, the OS doesn’t have ads, no privacy minefield, less malware. Gotta keep in mind that at the end of the day, most people only use their pc to open the browser.

Matrix is only a protocol. Take a look at its implementations. But yeah, none of these are discord.

I highly doubt there isn’t an opened issue about it.

There’s actually not. But there’s an open MR.

Well the first step would probably be to open an issue.

Like I said already: I have never had that problem in any other project.

If you think there’s a problem, you should report it.

If they don’t see my worth or I am actually worthless to have around I’ll search for someplace else.

Gotta stick around to find out.

It’s like this everywhere, you’ll always be initially met with circumspection. Passer-by contributions are not a help, helping out new contributors is a lot of effort that not every maintainer wants to deal with. You want to help, that’s great, but you’re not entitled to helping.

Gnome might be a club, but it’s definitely not closed, you just need to put in the effort to show you’re worth having around.

Well as far as i can see you’ve only had a problem with evince, which is retired btw. Gnome isn’t a giant blob, each maintainer handles their project in their own way.

With that both statements could have some truth: 5/6 MRs could be merged and it could still be that they dislike external contributions.

External contributions aren’t really a thing, 99% of contributions come from people that have been contributing for a while.

As for your MR, you need to go where help is actually wanted, solve issues nobody has gotten to yet. Newer projects are typically easier to contribute to. Probably inquire a bit about the maintainers and project direction in general first.

Gnome is a very large project with hundreds of different developers and maintainers. I can’t speak to your experience but you should avoid generalizing like that, also filing a complaint is always an option; there’s a few people over the years that have been kicked out.

5/6 of MRs get merged…

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Tilda is barely maintained anymore, you can get Tilix that has the same quake like feature. You can also add the quake terminal extension to your favorite alternative if you use gnome.

Yeah sorta. First you gotta know what the problem is, good luck getting the average user to figure out the UI looks off because of the padding. Then you gotta know where and how you need to change it to make it better.

Customizing is cool for power users that like to fiddle with their settings, however it can’t replace good defaults; not that I have anything against the defaults in this case…

Defaults matter, most people never bother customizing.