Compiling shaders twice a day, nothing is more fun :D. Though, the peripheral stuff did not hit me, but it would be annoying if it did (I have a lot of Unity games I play).

The speed they fixed this at was pretty impressive.

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Actually, switching the GTK theme in gnome tweaks to adwaita-dark does the trick. No idea why the "dark mode" does not set it for legacy applications, but that may be an incentive to gnome devs to actually adopt (the "we do stuff, you adopt and we don't care" attitude they showed in the past, not caring for the actual user experience. I think it bad practice though in terms of consistency while I understand wanting to push applications to use the new adwaita theming to be consistent with the rest, but I think at least minimal compatibility could have been kept.

Though, of course the incentive for developers to adopt would be less.

I do not understand the issue of them not deploying a systray either, relying on a plugin. Legacy support cut down (which pretty much comes down to fedora defaults) is a bit crap.

I think Gnome and Fedora defaults are at fault here. I understand the incentive of not doing stuff to make people migrate, but actually... that's a little bit much on the user.

By now I really got adopted to the Gnome (default) workflow though, and I have to say .. I expected it to be terrible by the description, and it isn't, it' actually pretty great. I though I could not live with the app switch mechanic, and it turns out - I do like it. Especially since I can keep one screen the same (mostly docs and shell), and switch applications (or rather activities) just on my primary screen pretty efficiently switching between the different applications (or the library and application in two source code editors) while keeping the shell and docs on screen. That really helps my workflow.

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Quoting: drlambIf you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I just used this documentation to upgrade to fc36 pre-release: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/ [External Link]

If I understood it correctly it put me on some branch where I am on fc36 now and I won't even need to do another upgrade from beta to release because if the branch becomes stable dnf will do that for me.

Dark mode looks good, I like the dual wallpaper thing.

May need to switch back to Xorg though, vscode is not working in Wayland unless you --enable-features=Vulkan which will get overwritten on every code update. But that's only a selection on login anyway :D.

I am not really sure but I think we see a downside of client side window decorations now where a lot of apps do not respect the adwaita theming, thus making apps look even more out of place if they have not been updated and having white title bars instead of using dark ones.

Or just GTK themes are not applied properly for dark mode.

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Quoting: drlambIf you're okay with running a beta release of Fedora you can already upgrade to Fedora 36 and get GNOME 42. The official beta release iso should be coming tomorrow.

I've had no issues upgrading to a beta release in my years of using Fedora.

Thought about it already, have to read into how to upgrade to beta or in general fedora releases (I am pretty new to Fedora), I am currently reluctant to reinstall again.

But if I am not mistaken it's less than a month away from release, I think my eyes probably will survive that. Maybe. Hopefully.

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Did so. I just switched to Gnome this month to give it a fair shot. Now I can't wait for 42, missing real dark mode :-(.

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And Valve stops paying ukraine devs. Shame on you Gabe.

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And Valve reportedly stopped payouts to Ukraine developers.

That really put them on my bad side now. I hope they remedy that soon, I'd dislike to have to stop using Steam.

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Well, I agree that a lot is not in Wine is not needed for games, and I always hoped for a lighter version for that use case.

That said, the biggest issue are the really bad game launchers. Game devs are not application developers and it shows. And thats something Stadia will most likely never allow, so the approach can help them, but very lilely will have little impact for the rest of us.

3 devs does not sound a lot, but can be a lot if you only solve a certain subset of issues.

They probably can ignore a lot of system interaction wine has to build.

A few hundred thousand lines of code sounds a lot especially if more complex, but it really must not be in this case.

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From scratch... hmh, that's interesting. I do not think they really will do a complete reimplementation of the windows API, that's a huge task.

I am ingrigued, but I have my doubts. But let's see the talk.

I'd like if they put that open source, I think wine/proton do a good job, but if they have an acr up their sleves it would be nice.

I doubt that it will be open source, but who knows.

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Ohj that's a cute one. Didn't know it. I'll buy that in the evening.

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