I mean, does OP not understand that upgrading their desktop environment outside the distro packages was risky? I feel like minimal software experience tells you that… A VM would’ve made perfect sense there
can you explain how testing this on a VM would have helped me with my issue on my day to day computer? Let’s say that the problem was solved in the latest release, what good would a VM do? Maybe i didn’t make myself clear, the message was not an attempt at debugging the situation. That dev just told me that the team is not interested in bugs reported on older versions and I should just upgrade.
It could have helped you by giving you the knowledge of where the issue was. If it was fixed by the update in the VM, you would know that and could then wait for your distro to get the update or even contact the distro community with that knowledge.
I get that it was frustrating but it truly wasn’t their job to tell you how risky that move was.
I know perfectly well what upgrading the shell means. You are missing the point entirely. This dev community does not accept bug reports on older versions even if they’re in use by a lot of people and then when they’re reported on the latest version and they’re acknowledged, they tell the reporter to piss off.
it’s not that the issue wasn’t fixed that got me to give up on Gnome, it’s the fact that a known issue was closed with no resolution even after I gave a patch as a workaround. This is why I am done with them.
