Marjorie Roome via Dng said on Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:53:32 +0100

>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."

Gnome became junk when they switched from Gnome3 to Gnome4, long before
systemd.

>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?

Sure. Why not. Also consider LXDE, LXQt, Openbox, FVWM if you have good
vision (I don't), and several others. If you don't mind a little less
reliability and a little more memory usage, even XFCE will do the
trick. User interfaces is one of the areas where you have *many*
*great* alternatives (unlike browsers and email clients).


SteveT

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