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Having to create .desktop files in god knows where for me to be able to right click -> “open with” my program of choice sure pushed me away

I don’t even know what they were thinking not letting you beowse for any executable file on disk

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Aren’t you supposed to use alacarte app to create new program entry on gnome?

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That’s definitely not what Google told me to do at the time in 2015

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Yeah same. There are some types of text file where gedit doesn’t even appear as an option. Like sometimes I don’t want to open .xml files in the browser.

I was able to set VScode for .xml files but not gedit. It’s not a huge deal but that one thing makes gnome feel like immature software.

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