The last update was over a year ago it seems. I remember everyone talking about the desktop environment like it was the next big thing. May she rest in peace.
Is it me or is source forge just the mark of dead things.
I always avoid that place. It feels like where you go to get broken stuff.
They’re gonna take me out back and shoot me for saying it but Launchpad too. Like I’m glad it works for you but it feels like when Debian had a website in 2015 that looked like 1997. How are we going to attract new talent when the rift between the average developers and the old guard widens over time. All the git VCS modernization supercharged development. Like bugzilla was “fine”, but " fine" was the problem in a world of better when you couldn’t even upload a > 250kb jpeg and other legacy hold us back stuff.
If a project is hosted on sourceforge then its a pretty good sign that the developer hasn’t progressed their craft since about 2005, which is a pretty big red flag for anything
If your a chess fan, Scid vs PC is regularly updated and it’s hosted on sourceforge. However I don’t go there unless it’s for that or other related projects.
Not a linux project, but OpenCamera for androis is probably the only exception I know of. It’s still getting updated and does best what it’s supposed to do.
There are other exceptions.
Agree - after they started bundling adware in downloads (2013ish?), all the decent projects seemed to move to github en masse.
Those projects that stayed were mostly already stagnant, or the maintainers didn’t use git and didn’t want to learn, or had some other reason that allowed them to accept advertising on their work.
rift between the average developers and the old guard widens over time.
You write “new kids value appearance over function and lack the mentors to show them why that’s bad” funny. And, you should use the other punctuation for a question.
I agree, alot of the young guard prefers bling over whatever actually works great. Having said that, giving older software a bit more bling is a good idea because said young guard is the future and you always want to lure people with the bling and keep them with the great functionality. Right now they see bling and if it’s shit, oh well, that’s just how it works
Everyone was talking about it back in 2022, but it hasn’t really had any progress since then. I had attempted to use it, but it was rather unpolished.
removed by mod
Lol. Most of us in this community are end users using linux, ya dip
You are getting down voted but you are right. But if companies making software would support Linux natively this would make a huge difference too and that is not the case now
The funny part is that my comment was removed by a mod 😂
Yeah that’s not cool. What did you say? I don’t care what it is, don’t remove comments just because you don’t like them (unless you started yelling about killing the evil <insert minority here>)
I sad that cutefish as a desktop experience is as dead as any other distro because unless we get proprietary software makers (Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk etc) - things that most computer users want - making software for Linux the desktop won’t go anywhere.
Cutefish? I’m all about the Dopefish.
Swim swim hungry
I watched the GitHub and it looks like it’s deepin os with a custom settings app and a MacOS style dock.
At that point just install deepin os and hope they don’t lie about user privacy (being owned by a Chinese for-profit doesn’t help)
Deepin looks gross lol. What I mean is it only looks good with its own apps. KDE apps look horrible on it and GNOME apps don’t look great either. I don’t know how anyone uses Deepin. I get taste is subjective but it feels half finished.
