• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    If you want to update your software broadly, it’s a pain in the ass if you need to try to hold gnome and only gnome back.

    And many of those extensions get abandoned after the authors get tired of the treadmill of having to redo stuff they already did.

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      3 hours ago

      Yes the volunteer software authors should work to the beat of the drum of the baying and braying users who insist on using cutting edge software before its wider ecosystem has adapted to its novelties. A very good point.

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      2 hours ago

      Shouldn’t that only apply if the other software depends on the new functionality in the updated gnome?