Debian and Arch are exceptions. I believe maintainers of every other mainstream distro are exploring immutable distros or at least shipping confined apps.

That is no longer the case with the new default Desktop subiquity installer in 23.04. Instead of a single squashfs, there are separate squashfs files so the minimal install is faster than default in 23.04.

Debian knows how to do secret voting. In fact, Debian's latest election of their Project Leader which also ended last night was secret.

It looks like it would need a General Resolution to allow secret voting for future General Resolutions.

It is far more likely that the website was created by an individual, probably by the guy who submitted the site to Reddit's Linux forum.

Make sure that gir1.2-gdm-1.0 is installed. I think the dependency was accidentally dropped.

That did the trick; thank you!

There will be an update for that soon. (Ubuntu non-security updates are normally in -proposed for at least 7 days first.)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/3.26.1-0ubu...

Mir is still used for some of Canonical's IoT products. Since Canonical has paying customers, it's worthwhile to continue maintaining it.

It depends on the app whether screenshots work. Some apps use the GNOME screenshot API and are fine; other apps assume X.

Have you tried again after upgrading to gnome-shell 3.26 (it's only been in Debian unstable for one week)?

Tried right now; QtCreator and chromium are still broken. Curiously, the former is super tiny and the latter huge!

Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha already has an early snapshot of gtk4. Debian will get it later this year.

That package is installed by default in Debian 9 (but it was added fairly late in Stretch's development cycle).