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
    261·
    2 years 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
      122·
      2 years 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
        4·
        2 years 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
          21·
          2 years 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
            21·
            2 years 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.

    • szczuroarturo@programming.dev
      7·
      2 years ago

      I mean going from windows to mac os also needs getting used to beacuse Obviusly they are not the same systems . Each of those has diffrent design philosophy. And out of all linux GUI gnome is the simplest( In my opinion also the best looking one ). And most of the rest also takes very little of getting used to since they are very similar to either windows or MacOS( elementary ).