• Moxvallix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    334·
    1 year ago

    This is honestly really sad. I really don’t get the hostility towards Gnome and it’s devs.

    Gnome is certainly quite opinionated, and isn’t to everyone’s tastes, but this doesn’t make it ok for memes like this (a pretty shit meme regardless).

    Gnome has done a lot for the linux ecosystem, and Gnome developers don’t owe you anything.

    Grow up.

  • 30p87@feddit.de
    18·
    1 year ago

    *Microsoft devs

    Now, seriously. Microsoft’s devs literally only do something if their boss tells them to, and the boss only cares about money. The support teams only know chkdsk and reboot.

    • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      On the topic of Microsoft support, I hate how useless support boards are. They’re always responding with the same template answers describing the exact steps the asker clearly stated they’ve already done with no results. Microsoft is far from alone in this, but I just wanted to rant a bit.

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.ml
    14·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know anything about the post you’ve made, can’t verify or deny it, but from my personal experience, this dude is very passive-aggressive towards newbies. When I was starting to learn GTK4, during that time, there were not a lot of apps.

    So, I wanted to get help from the Element community in understanding the “Hello World” equivalent of GTK4.

    There was a guide by some Japanese dev on GitHub, I think, which I was following around. I was not aware of the XML editor, I thought that the entire app had to be designed using code, so I could not find anything about the modern-style headerbar on the docs.

    It was this guy (ebassi) who would make hostile remarks continuously, asking me to “just read the docs”. Now, that’s a lot of reaction for a single message I left on their server.

    Yes, there were other folks who were kind to me, but knowing how the “lead” dev was but an asshole, I left the Element server, knowing that I was unwelcome. This was around 2020 or 22.

    If not for the hostility, I would have probably contributed to the Ruby bindings, which are still at GTK3 or maybe help shift from OpenGl to Vulkan renderer, because I also happen to be learning about Vulkan at the same time, using pure C.

  • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
    154·
    1 year ago

    Why? Because most are working for free and don’t have time for BS. Let’s be serious, the amount of BS or low-effort tickets is high.

    When an unpaid dev is sacrificing free time improving or fixing GNOME tickets better be well-written.

    Having said that, closing well-written and well-reasoned tickets “just like that” and willy-nilly is ofc not OK either.

    • deadcream@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Low effort tickets are ignored because they are bullshit.

      High effort tickets are ignored because devs are lazy and can’t be bothered to deal with complex and boring issues.

      Well, at least that’s how I roll as an open source developer lol.

    • levir77987@sh.itjust.worksOP
      610·
      1 year ago

      There are gnome devs paid to work full time. The most notorious dev stirring up drama (ebassi) is one of them.

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

    While I’ve chuckled at how Gnome devs do things, it can’t be fun being that guy considering how big of a hate boner /g/ has for him

  • Vincent@kbin.social
    51·
    1 year ago

    This is so rude. You’ve done nothing for the guy (neither have I), and have probably used and benefited from his work (that we did not pay for) in some way - and then to single him out and ridicule him? There’s an actual human on the other side there…