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   minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 20:19:28 JST minute

   because of shipping and technical debt cleanup etc i'm a bit behind on announcing that we've replaced the wayfire desktop with GNOME on the mnt reform series laptops, as one of the two primary default environments (the other being Sway), and replaced greetd with GDM. we'll soon publish a longer article about this. the main motivation is my goal to make reform devices as accessible and discoverable as possible by default, and if you're more advanced, you can dismantle and customize anything.

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     Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 20:19:26 JST Æ.

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     @mntmn I managed to revert back to Sway, although with some difficulty. GNOME digs itself in deep into the system, quite rude of it :)

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     minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 20:19:27 JST minute

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     @aesthr meh! i'm sorry to hear. the transition is even harder to get right than including it from the start :/

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     minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 20:19:28 JST minute

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     originally i wanted to ship GNOME already with the original pocket reform, but the imx8mplus GPU turned out to be too slow to support it well enough to have a great time with the machine, so as a compromise, i tried to make wayfire friendly enough to ship it (in addition to Sway, which performed well but is more for advanced users). but it fell short of my original goal of having a comfy approachable desktop. now with RK3588, this original goal can be met, and i can focus on other rough edges

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     Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 20:19:28 JST Æ.

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     @mntmn fun fact: I just tried to install GNOME on my Pocket and it hosed my system in a big way that I would not hope for any non-savvy user