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What is the point of the effort though? It doesn't seem to me that the user is gaining a whole lot from an almost exact rewrite of some apps that already existe
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
What is the point of the effort though? It doesn't seem to me that the user is gaining a whole lot from an almost exact rewrite of some apps that already existed.
They don't need to be fast to use, so there's nothing to gain from better speed. They weren't ugly, so a slightly different styling is not a win. They weren't crashing all the time, so reliability is not it.
They don't try to redesign some core desktop experience from the looks of it either.
So... why?
- Shared404 5y agoIt looks like they're keeping the core of the workflow, but refining it further than the current GNOME extension they develop can. The bigger thing is that GNOME is making it harder and harder to customize and extend, which is a problem for System 76 for obvious reasons.