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What POS are you running that extensions break everything with an update?
apt update; apt upgrade
This is unlikely to break GNOME Extensions. Debian and Ubuntu only ship breaking changes in new releases, so you won't get a new GNOME version without explicitly changing your sources and doing an
apt full-upgradeToss it and use one that doesn't break everything
gnome loves to change its api
When you update GNOME, extensions that aren't explicitly compatible, break.
I don't blame the extension developers. A lot of extensions should just be native features of GNOME.
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Nah, they just get disabled. Gnome still functions.
Yeah but some extensions are central to me being productive with GNOME at all
Sure, but who cares unless you aren't running a rolling release? There is time for them to be updated while you do nothing on a working system.
then you're using gnome wrong?
seriously, extensions like Dash to X go against gnome philosophy and you should probably use kde instead in that case.
extensions are intended be used for little "nice to have" featuresI'm not talking about Dash to Dock or sth like that. I'm talking about
- opening a new window when I launch an application (rather than teleport me to another workspace)
- clipboard manager
- easy toggle for keeping my screen awake
- any sort of tiling support beyond left/right
- removing the useless window titlebars
- have a wallpaper rotation