There's a small footnote to this, but I think it's true enough to say it like that.
When I came to Linux I quickly got into the unixporn community. After a bit of making Ubuntu look nice, I discovered i3. I then found the gaps patch and rebased it onto the latest version of i3 at the time. Lots of unixporn people liked that and asked me to create a repository for it, so I did -- and i3-gaps was born.
The reason I say it's true enough to say it was born on unixporn is that it's where "a gaps patch" turned into "i3-gaps", and also I reworked so much of that initial small patch that it became something new essentially.
To each to their own then, whilst I continue to sell shovels to developers and turn over another ten to twenty thousand dollars a month for only that.
At least I know why I cannot define Linux Desktop support and have to draw the line on the most used and standard of desktop distros.
Okay?
So explaining the truth of not supporting complicated prehistoric contraptions is somehow upsetting to folks emotionally attached to their desktops?
EDIT:
Also with your own edits it really does show that the truth indeed hurts those that can't handle it when you are all over the place:
>> What the fuck are you talking about?
Getting very upset and angry. Causing one to sway into irrationality and reduced reading comprehension such as:
>> But saying there's no use-case is crazy .. can you not read?
There is 'little to no use-case' and it is almost invisible even if there is a use-case.
Surely you can read that and know that it isn't absolute. Yet, I'm the one that can't read? Your reading comprehension is quite low when you're angry over a windowing manager.
>> Look at your unhinged, boorish tone, uncouth bragging about how much money you make, your passionate and irrelevant denunciation of the Linux desktop, the deep personal offense you're taking to other people's UI preferences ... it's sheer projection.
I gave the reason why Linux Desktop support is ill defined. It is the truth and clearly it is upsetting you.
>> Do you have bipolar disorder or something? You really don't seem psychologically healthy.
Yet it is not me that is swearing, showing anger and giving short abrasive responses without explanation? Those who don't have a refutation often try to divert the subject to attacking the claimant and to make it all about them.
Oh dear.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd appreciate it.
Edit: we've already had to warn you more than once about this kind of thing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635473 (March 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30225935 (Feb 2022)
We ban accounts that can't or won't stop doing this, so it would be good to stop.
Oh the horror!
It’s kind of weird to me that folks think that aesthetics don’t matter for something that’s so central to one’s life.
The legitimate complaint about/problem with aesthetics is when it becomes the priority and/or hampers functionality. The macOS calendar when it took its extremely skeuomorphic turn was the prime example of this (it was such a poster boy for aesthetics over functionality that Apple responded by getting rid of skeuomorphism altogether).
But aesthetic improvements don’t need to be like that at sll.
e.g. see: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
This is not an invalid use-case. Not everybody wants to be 100% focused on productivity to the exclusion of absolutely everything else.
If you want to have something as simple as a background image, the only way you're going to be able to see it when using a tiling window manager is with gaps or transparency. Small gaps is arguably less intrusive than transparency.