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		metalspoon on May 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announc... Yes. I prefer having tools that do one thing well. That's the point of unix. How the user uses them should be up to her. GNOME offering a monolithic environment with heavy opinionation is the opposite.

flexagoon on May 1, 2024 [–]

How is GNOME a "monolithic environment"? The entire GNOME ecosystem is basically small apps that do a single thing well:

https://apps.gnome.org/

kasabali on May 4, 2024 | [–]

So is X11, by that logic

https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/

flexagoon on May 13, 2024 | | [–]

That page literally just lists all sorts of random apps that work under X11, so yeah? Of course it's not a single monolithic system.

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