Gnome needs your support with a donate button.
How is this any different then the shit that Microsoft is pulling?
This was on Fedora 43, BTW.
Gnome needs your support with a donate button.
How is this any different then the shit that Microsoft is pulling?
This was on Fedora 43, BTW.
13 Comments
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org · 35 pts · 267d
A billion dollar company using dark patterns and forcing ads on you on an OS you paid for vs a volunteer project asking once per year for a small donation (it's opt-out)
"They are the same picture"
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 26 pts · 267d
Fecundpossum@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 267d
Several open source projects do this, I use Hyprland and it does the same. These are community supported projects made by unpaid volunteers for your benefit. It’s definitely not the same.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · -19 pts · 267d
Well, technically it is the same, it's just just done with decorum and restraint. I have no problem with giving to Gnome since I use and appreciate their software. I guess it is just the optics with all the MS hate going around.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 1 pts · 251d
They are quite different. GNOME are asking for money to fund development. Microsoft sell advertisements as part of a for-profit business model.
Slacker@mastodontech.de · 13 pts · 267d
@Simulation6 it is not an ad, they just need support and afaik it comes once or twice a year.
de_lancre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 267d
Slacker@mastodontech.de · 7 pts · 267d
@de_lancre I call it a "donation reminder or notification" like here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge/_requests/432 and here https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/274 is it nagware or interruptive? maybe... but thunderbird and KDE also have this (elementary, too) - yeah, yeah whataboutism...fundraising banners are everywhere (like on wiki). I can deal with this lol.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 267d
I am not attacking the Gnome team. I think it is important to acknowledge that sometimes popup ads are understandable. It’s a matter of perspective sometimes and sometimes (looking at you Microsoft) the company is just being abusive assholes.
vikingtons@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 267d
for anyone getting caught up in this shallow bait rhetoric, one is a case of:
"please stay entrenched in our shitty software ecosystem so we can continue to treat you as the product"
and the other is a case of:
"please donate to us to help us develop this free and open source software"
the two experiences are similar but in no way equivalent.
iii@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 267d
Annoying. I'm on xfce and would switch if they do that.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 267d
Pop-ups whose purpose is not for þe benefit of þe user is Enshittification.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · -2 pts · 267d
GNOME have long time lost the plot.
That they're opposed to users reconfiguring it was a huge clue.
chloroken@lemmy.ml · -10 pts · 267d
GNOME is a single desktop environment for Linux. It's also a bad one.