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Re:Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure by veeti on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:17AM (#46002363)
> It almost smells like sabotage (at least self-sabotage).

See also: Ubuntu Unity, Gnome 3, KDE 4... all widely panned by their most loyal users. 2010s were the lost decade of Linux.

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Re:Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure by johnny22 on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:13AM (#46003783)
there were many of us who really liked gnome 3 though. Not that it was issue free, but the workflow was very appealing.
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Re:Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure by veeti on Friday November 21, 2025 @12:04PM (#46006304)
Sure, I quite enjoy it myself now. But I'd be lying if I said it wasn't borderline unusable for years.
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