But every once in a while now something will open an evince window or I want to play Iagno. It's bad enough that those windows don't follow the system theme at all (which was once a solved problem).

To make all of this worse, I know that gnome can support these sort of things. I've configured it on a work machine that only has gnome3. But I can't find a way to make Gnome apps behave when run under XFCE.

Funny enough, I just noted a post-it app I have up is using client side decorations but still manages to handle shading correct. Still raises on click and can't be pinned. But there's hope these wheel will eventually be rediscovered or reinvented.

Who else stopped reading two words into the summary?

This is exactly why I quit using Gnome 20 years ago.

I've worked with a number of teams that use Git, and they all use it like a centralized VCS

except it's more awkward to set up and use than a VCS like SVN or Perforce or even CVS is.

Then they spend more time arguing about whether or not to rebase than they spend actually developing software.

It's a real shame that Mercurial didn't win out. It's a superior DVCS in every way, except for not having as much mindless hype surrounding it. But I suppose in some ways that's one of its best features, too. It hasn't attracted all of the fools that Git has.

Linux is mainly for servers and embedded systems. On the desktop it's for people that enjoy tinkering with computers rather than getting work done.