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The last update was over a year ago it seems. I remember everyone talking about the desktop environment like it was the next big thing. May she rest in peace.

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[–] ErnieBernie10@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are getting down voted but you are right. But if companies making software would support Linux natively this would make a huge difference too and that is not the case now

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The funny part is that my comment was removed by a mod 😂

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that's not cool. What did you say? I don't care what it is, don't remove comments just because you don't like them (unless you started yelling about killing the evil )

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I sad that cutefish as a desktop experience is as dead as any other distro because unless we get proprietary software makers (Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk etc) - things that most computer users want - making software for Linux the desktop won't go anywhere.