Post 978191 by tbernard@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #978188 by tbernard@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T13:00:59Z
       
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       Every day it becomes a little more clear to me why we *need* GNOME OS
       
 (DIR) Post #978189 by tbernard@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T13:07:16Z
       
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       The desktop/distro separation just doesn't work. There's no clean way to square the interests of platforms and distributions (because every distribution thinks of itself as a platform, when they really aren't).
       
 (DIR) Post #978190 by tbernard@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T13:12:08Z
       
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       This isn't GNU/Linux specific either, Android has the same problem. Every OEM wants to be Apple, but doesn't want to do the work of maintaining a full vertical platform.This incentivizes them to make decisions that are actively user-hostile (such as pushing out updates more slowly because they need to update their custom UI stuff).
       
 (DIR) Post #978191 by tbernard@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T13:27:05Z
       
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       We see the same dynamic playing out on the GNU/Linux desktop: Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop OS etc. are pretending to be platforms, but they're not.This results in a situation where everyone is trying to do campy "value-add" features, and pushing their brand in users' faces. It's why atrocities like the Fedora logo extension, and developer-hostile custom system stylesheets are a thing even though everyone knows these are bad ideas.
       
 (DIR) Post #978192 by tbernard@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T13:38:56Z
       
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       Of course it's a little different on Android, because Google has long made Nexus/Pixel devices, which ship a clean version of the platform without OEM "improvements".But even on the free desktop there are examples of this: elementaryOS is famously vertical by design, Budgie has Solus, and even KDE has Neon. We're the only platform that you *can't* get without going through a distributor.
       
 (DIR) Post #978193 by tbernard@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T13:41:58Z
       
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       Bottom line: We need GNOME OS, and we need it now.
       
 (DIR) Post #978194 by timapple@fosstodon.org
       2018-11-04T15:51:47Z
       
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       @tbernardYou would still be using one of the above mentioned arch, debian, Ubuntu, or something as a base... If gnome created their own distro from scratch, I'm pretty sure it would be incomplete for most users...you need those bases to have what everyone needs.
       
 (DIR) Post #978195 by alatiera@mastodon.social
       2018-11-04T16:07:42Z
       
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       @timapple @tbernard That won't be the case. The OS would be just an OStree image of the Buildstream project that's used to already manage the releases and build the GNOME runtime/sdk. And thanks to Flatpak you won't  miss out on content/apps either.Essentially apps that target the GNOME flatpak runtime are already targeting the GNOME OS base.