Enterprise distros often include gnome as part of default installation.

It literally isn’t.

I’ve always had either problems with schedules or problems with environment because it has it’s own. Cron is fine as long as you are lucky. That isn’t to say there never were problems with timers, on debian 9, I think, shipped version of systemd had a bug where systemd-analyze parsed schedule correctly and timer just shit itself. But only for some specific case I can’t remeber which, but it was extremely frustrating to debug.

I really dislike dumb and entitled takes like this. First he somehow complains about both GNOME and KDE when literally none of the complaint apply to KDE, second switching between different operating systems will break the way you are doing things anyway, and third - who cares.

You can explain timers the same way.

And then with your explanation it goes: cron job doesn’t execute for reason, crontab -l lists not all jobs, someone else put cron job in whatever directory like cron.daily, you’ve added or removed empty line at the end and now nothing works, debian crond and redhat cronie ahave different quirks, etc., etc.

I’ve dealt with insane cron problems for so long that switching to timers was like *whoa i don’t need to suffer?*

So it’s really not the same workflow at all? Just this month I’ve explained to really smart people how to use corner tiling in windows and hotkeys, most people today don’t even own a PC. For me, personally, the difference is negligible, for a lot of people it’s really alien.

First, it is usable just not the way Talon requires (and its developer doesn’t want to support wayland). Second people can use LTS distributions that will ship X11 for many years, and by that time it will either be good enough or won’t.

Which all of them, which cron implementation is simpler and better? Do you even use cron? It’s not a joke, explanation on how to use cron takes > 8 pages. It should be in the hall of fame of the least accessible and hard to learn programs. Lennart cancer is one of the greatest things that happened to linux.

It’s not so bad like the article author describes, there is work being done to address the input issue e.g. libei and wayland protocols. (also N.Graham answer that says that it should be done on wayland level if they require universal solution is right if a bit unkind)

get acquired

Why in passive? Weren’t they actively participating in acquisition?

It depends, what do you want to print?

I would buy another Elegoo CC or Sovol unless there is a multicolor requirement.

There are multiple tiling kwin scripts both manual, automatic, even scrolling.

Why did it make you angry? Do you believe that there are other implementations that do the task better and simpler?

It really isn’t. Starting from only having a close button on every window, windows behaving differently, not having a panel with currently running programs, etc.

I mean yeah there are windows and you can interact with them, but that’s where similarities end.

Agreed on debian general popularity but how many people install it on desktop/laptop? Ubuntu is hard to believe tbh, maybe ten years ago.

I’m not sure which are the most popular distros. Mint, Fedora, some arch derivative of the day?

Last version of gnome 2 was 2.32, I think, not 2.8.

Why?

Meh, plasma was stable enough by 4.4 (when I’ve switched from gnome 2), there were some problems, but gnome 3 released about that time wasn’t any better. I’m not sure about popularity of gnome, it was repeated a lot but personally I’ve met one person to this day that used vanilla gnome 3/4/5/50 not representative of course but it’s just weird that supposedly everyone is running it yet among the category of people that linux is most popular with it doesn’t show.

Is it really most popular?

It’s not more stable than plasma surely, at least when user does any customization.

Simplicity is questionable, unless simple means ‘unlearn everything and do it our way’.