Independent_Owl_7139@piefed.social to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-212 hours agoI am on mint MATE will installing this software make my computer gnomedmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down14
arrow-up134arrow-down1imageI am on mint MATE will installing this software make my computer gnomedmedia.piefed.socialIndependent_Owl_7139@piefed.social to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-212 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareIndependent_Owl_7139@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·13 hours agoYes, i’ve seen on Reddit that people accidently do this, and I don’t want to be one of those people :)
minus-squareBlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours ago“Accidentally” install Gnome?
minus-squarestuner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoIt’s a thing where the Gnome desktop is installed as a dependency and shows up on the next boot: https://www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed
minus-squareBlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoThe entire gnome DE as a dependency? I have no idea. What kind of software is doing that aside from the gnome desktop anyway?
minus-squarethanksforallthefish@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 minutes agoYep. It’s real, scores of noobs on the reddit subs sobbing about. I believe protonvpn install was the usual culprit. I won’t link to reddit but the /r/linuxmint sub has many posts https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=446923 https://lunduke.substack.com/p/yes-getting-gnomed-is-a-thing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=suxMvUuFDMw
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 hours agoIn that case, no. Like the other responder said, those are just some dependency packages. Lots of software uses packages made by Gnome. These are simply dependencies for other software you’re installing.
Yes, i’ve seen on Reddit that people accidently do this, and I don’t want to be one of those people :)
“Accidentally” install Gnome?
It’s a thing where the Gnome desktop is installed as a dependency and shows up on the next boot: https://www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed
The entire gnome DE as a dependency? I have no idea. What kind of software is doing that aside from the gnome desktop anyway?
Yep. It’s real, scores of noobs on the reddit subs sobbing about.
I believe protonvpn install was the usual culprit. I won’t link to reddit but the /r/linuxmint sub has many posts
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=446923
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/yes-getting-gnomed-is-a-thing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=suxMvUuFDMw
In that case, no. Like the other responder said, those are just some dependency packages.
Lots of software uses packages made by Gnome. These are simply dependencies for other software you’re installing.