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Thumbnails are not polish. They’re an essential feature of working with images.

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  The devil's advocate response is "How essential could they be? We went decades without 'em." I don't think it's the right answer, but it's an answer that works (GNOME continues to be the dominant Linux desktop environment in spite of lacking that feature).
  • jasonlotito 4y ago
    Completely realizing you aren't actually making the "devil's advocate response," but I think the response to that is "We went for a millennia without electricity, too." Just because we went without something, doesn't mean we should accept life without it at this point.
  • TillE 4y ago
    GNOME has enjoyed the status of being basically usable, if not particularly good, throughout its history. I still remember KDE going through what felt like years of being unusably broken during its clumsy transition from 3 to 4. That's a lot of the desktop Linux experience, really - everything constantly in flux, never quite usable. I don't blame anyone for this, it's hard to get stuff done without someone paying a team to do it, but it's really unfortunate.
    • doubled112 4y ago
      After flip flopping a bunch, I ditched both GNOME and KDE for Xfce and haven't felt like I've missed much. It might need some better defaults, but you only have to fix them once on a new install. Nothing huge changes, and really, I'm not looking for much. A launcher. A way to switch windows. Volume and brightness buttons/applets are nice to have. A system tray. I've heard somebody somewhere along the lines call it the "Debian of DEs" and I can't argue with that.
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