• endeavor@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Gnome: We lock down everything since youre too wtupid to handle womputers Also gnome: “oh you want right click-create file? We can’t think of a more streamlined solution than navigating to the folder you already have open in nautilus using terminal, making an empty file with a terminal text editor and googling the command to save and exit empty file. Intuitive is our MO”

    I love gnome workflow and simplicity but it is too locked down in nonsensical ways and it is too broken too often.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Gnome has always been like this. They started on this trend at the very beginning.
      I dropped it when they released 1.0 or 1.1 as they had released another of idiotic changes that were half because “we know better” and because “fuck you, user peons”. Never looked back as it’s been managed the same way ever since.

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      5 hours ago

      You can just put a blank file in the Templates directory then it shows up in the right click menu. At least it does that on PopOS

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      7 hours ago

      I was searching for this a few days ago and was stunned that you aren’t able to just create an empty file in the gnome file manager.

      In the terminal you can use touch file.txt to create an empty file, but it should be possible to do this in the file manager.

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        5 hours ago

        Oh i know i can painstakingly navigate to the correct folder with ls and cd, then google what that one command I never use is and then use man to stop the whole process and read how to use it.

        It’s nice to have that option for those who want to have fun with it, but it is a joke this is the intended option in gnome of all places.