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Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.

These user complaints are 100% legit...

But we need some good funding model to pay someone to fix them. Good funding models are something the opensource world has been missing for a while...

He IS actually offering a bounty, though..

“There's some hypothetical money to claim from somebody, somewhere” is not a good funding model. At best, you'll get a dozen additional issues sorted in a large project.

I wouldn't be confident that funding is the solution here. This is about adding a feature to a project that seems to be completely disinterested in that feature, some recent answers from project developers in the gitlab issue are even hostile to it. Likely to be not something money can fix, this goes directly into the deep rooted problems GNOME has with usability.

The complaint is legit. But making a page about your pet issue to create emotional response and cause rants about gnome on social media? That's annoying.

Here's a better structure for the post "This is an issue that really impacts me and I care a lot about. See existing bug / discussion links. I can't solve it myself, but it's important enough that I'm willing to put up bounty for that work." I don't think anyone would complain about it.

I don't think the author cares about this issue.

The author is trying to point out a process problem in the hope that some of us here at HN can help solve it.

It's a pretty basic feature for a modern file manager.

The way I see it, maintainers like these are why users of open source software are burning out and switching to macOS.

If people are going to make crappy half-baked software that doesn't work, they need to be upfront about it so people stop expecting it to do its job. If they're not going to do this, people are right to expect a basic level of quality and to complain when they don't get it.

It also doesn't help that theres an utter legion of Linux users who deny that the ecosystem has any deficiencies at all compared to windows and macOS. It's so misleading.

All three have deficiencies, and for all three you will find people claiming that their chosen one is best thing since sliced bread.

No need to single out a specific one.

No it's not users, it's open source developers are guilty themselves. There is no need to have dozens of Linux distros, multiple packages, few desktop environments (with apps like email clients, music players, etc. created for each environment). Windows doesn't have multiple desktop environments to choose, Microsoft isn't developing multiple email clients and so on. The amount of wasted time (creating multiple solutions for one problem) in Linux world is staggering.

You're not even comparing apples to oranges here but apples to nuts. And as a linux user I can confirm that situation is indeed nuts, but the apple that MS is offering you is poisonous but you don't even seem to know it.

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