On 6/11/25 12:53 PM, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone else here have any thoughts about the implications of this?
>
> *"What’s changing?*
>
> GNOME is about to gain a few strong dependencies on systemd, and this
> will make running GNOME harder in environments that don’t have systemd
> available."
>
> https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/
>
> I'm not a Gnome user but I do run Cinnamon which has Gnome components
> and is supported by Mint - which is a systemd distribution.
>
> Maybe I need to think about switching to Mate?

I've been using Mate for years, and am perfectly happy with it. I
started with FVWM, then, I think I used Gnome for a short while, but
then switched to Mate, probably not long after it forked from Gnome.

Marc