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Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi

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Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi

ebassi@mastodon.social

Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.

he/him

Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.

You may remember me for my work at OpenedHand, Intel, Endless, and the GNOME Foundation. Otherwise, you heard about me being a scary person on the Internet.

"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop" according to a random YouTube user.

Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.

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3 months ago • •

Emmanuele Bassi

3 months ago • •


#gnome
What you think 10 year old GNOME looks like [screenshot of GNOME 2.10, March 2005]
What 10 year old GNOME actually looks like [screenshot of GNOME 3.16, March 2015]
#gnome
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
I'll start feeling nostalgic when 40 is 15 years ago
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in reply to Anselm Schüler • 3 months ago • •
@anselmschueler 11 years to go, then
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Matthew Garrett

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
oh man who's in charge of the old farts club stickers now
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in reply to Matthew Garrett • 3 months ago • •
@mjg59 I think @ross was going to do a small batch of artisanal, organic, locally sourced Old Farts stickers
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
@mjg59 I was. The problem was that stickermule turned out to be a rabid trumper so if anyone has suggestions for reasonably priced UK sticker printers...
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in reply to Ross Burton • 3 months ago • •
@mjg59 Found someone in the UK. I'll do a run of Old Farts Club and vintage OH :)
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in reply to Ross Burton • 3 months ago • •
@ross @mjg59 hmm, I'm 40 in a couple of months, do I get an old farts sticker?
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in reply to Cwiiis • 3 months ago • •
@Cwiiis @ross @mjg59 I’d say you count. The original threshold was 30 years old, and was bumped to 40 once a lot of people cleared it…
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
@Cwiiis @ross @mjg59 Moving the goalposts I see 👀
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in reply to Philip Withnall • 3 months ago • •
@pwithnall @Cwiiis @ross @mjg59 only a bunch of twenty-something nerds could think that 30 is the cut-off for being an old fart, to be honest…
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
fuuuuuuuuuuuck
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Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
So basically like today but with corners.
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
@ebassi, I was just saying to a friend yesterday how great Gnome 2 was!
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
if I wanted modern windows I would use modern windows
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
darn GNOME 2 looked beautiful
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
Ouch.
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
Wenre getting old 😔
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
Currently I’m going through a nostalgic period for old UI’s such as GNOME, KDE, Windows Classic, Mac OS platinum.
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Julian Andres Klode  🏳️‍🌈
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Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
$h1t! ?#@!!!
This entry was edited (3 months ago)
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UnitedWeStand🇪🇺🌻

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 3 months ago • •
Ich habe gnome3 von der ersten version an geliebt und es ist noch viel besser geworden. Immer wieder versuche ich andere Desktop aber kehre immer wieder zu gnome zurück.
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 2 months ago • •
10 years already?? Wow
Even more surprised by seeing how similar it was to how it is today.
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 2 months ago • •
it's crazy how much actually more usable old and gnome was compared to how simplistic and space hogging the new one is
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in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • 2 months ago • •
10 years ago (or more, probably) Gnome was fully useful and productive. Today, I'm an XFCE fanboy... Guess why!
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