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It's easy to test with notify-send test, and yeah GNOME does block notifications while fullscreen applications are open. I wonder how that notification went through, maybe gamescope isn't properly registering the fullscreen application or it's x11 wine being the problem.
GNOME lets you block notifications on a per application basis.
Parents fail all the time, that's when the government needs to step in and take action, in this case by making sure kids can safely play the game. And I disagree, Roblox's entire business revolves around children, they make money off them at every step and they even pay kids to make content for their platform; they should be and they are rightfully being held accountable for what happens on their platform.
I don't know what "deck mode" is. I'm using gnome with proton-ge, wine-wayland and it works out of the box if that helps.
PoE2
Path of exile 2 just works though? It even has a vulkan renderer.
missing HDR, vrr
That depends on the compositor you're using, support is still relatively new but it works just fine on GNOME and KDE.
From what I remember they were using GNOME for pop os with some custom addons they had made (for example a tiling addon). GNOME updates will sometimes break addons and I think the pop os people got tired of this.
That's barely a footnote compared to the development time that writing an entire DE requires, not to mention that now they can't piggyback off GNOME's development anymore and they'll have to do everything themselves. There's a reason Ubuntu eventually abandoned Unity and came crawling back to GNOME.
rust implies performance and security
Rust implies only 1 thing, and that's no memory leaks, assuming you don't use "unsafe" code. It's still very much vulnerable to logic bugs and has the same performance as c (GNOME) and c++ (KDE).
That's tame compared to blizzard tbf. Anyways these projects depend entirely on the reputation of the project and the goodwill of the community, you don't have to trust someone when their cashflow depends on you liking what they're making.
I agree that Ubuntu is a solid distro and would recommend it before Mint, it's just not at the top of the list anymore. But if you're happy with what you have, that's all that matters.
I wonder if I missed a memo.
Ubuntu isn't really made for regular users, canonical doesn't care about you, they're in it for the server / enterprise money; they'll regularly take decisions that go against your best interest like pushing snaps and adding ads to the terminal.
These days you don't need .deb files with how ubiquitous flatpaks are becoming so there's no real reason to stick to ubuntu anymore. If you like the ubuntu release model, fedora should be the closest alternative. It's still sponsored by a corporation, but they have a loose hand over the distribution.
Eh, you'll come around.
Let's put things into perspective, it's a biyearly notification that sustains the entire gnome ecosystem, I'll remind you that the GNOME foundation pays for the hosting costs, the paperwork and sometimes even development for the GNOME project that includes dozens of apps, libraries and GTK.
This is just the first implementation that will get ironed out in the next few years, like making sure it doesn't pop up in full screen windows and if you read through the issue there will also be an opt out in the settings.