I’ve said this previously, and I’ll say it again: we’re severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I’ve learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There’s enough not-really-coding work for several people. Instead, we lean hard on maintainers to do all that work. That might’ve worked acceptably for the first 20 years, but it doesn’t now.

[…]

Dave and I are both burned out. I’m not sure Dave ever got past the 2017 burnout that lead to his resignation. Remarkably, he’s still around. Is this (extended burnout) where I want to be in 2024? 2030? Hell no.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    I love and use GNOME daily, but I think it’s still the case that the interface “needs some getting used to” for a Windows/MacOS user. The design paradigm is just not familiar or self-explanatory to anyone who has regularly used desktop computers in the past decade.

    • sederx@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      but I think it’s still the case that the interface “needs some getting used to” for a Windows/MacOS user.

      why do you think thats unreasonable? its a different system

      • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        I think it is unreasonable because a Windows user (i.e. myself) can quickly get up to speed with MacOS within five minutes without the need for external instruction. I can manage a MacOS system perfectly fine even without any prior knowledge of how it works. I can figure out how to configure the settings to do what I need it to do without needing to search for how to do it online.

        GNOME took almost a week to get used to and remember where things are located, such as what is located in Settings, how the task flow works, and so forth. I never got used to the “disappearing dock”. I had to use an extension for that. GNOME is just way more different than the others. Meanwhile, my grandpa picked up Cinnamon as a lifelong Windows user within five minutes.

        • sederx@programming.dev
          0·
          10 months ago

          Why are you talking like gnome is the default Linux DE? Its not. As you said yourself cinnamon is better for some folks.

          • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
            1·
            10 months ago

            It’s not, but what distros frequently top the list of “user-friendly” distros?

            Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, and friends.

            Maybe it’s not how it should be, but that’s currently how it is.