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As far as I’m aware, Wayland apps can only “steal” focus by going through the proper channel, the xdg activation protocol.

Or maybe it’s a bug with Gnome 43?

I think you need to use Wayland, focus stealing protection set to strict, and no Xwayland apps. Xwayland apps can bypass the focus stealing protection.

This is at least the third time this has happened. There was also a malicious app that was a cryptocurrency miner.

I don't know how Canonical can take themselves seriously when it comes to Snap. It's beyond embarassing. Their near complete lack of moderation has hurt people over and over again.

Heroic is really nice and what I recommend, but the UI is a bit clunky and spread out.

Strange. Discord, ProtonMail, ProtonUp-Qt, and Spotify should all work perfectly. Except maybe some drag and drop issues for Discord and ProtonMail? And Discord's activity status is blocked from tracking you. What issues did you have specifically?

I can see OpenRGB having issues given that tries to talk to the hardware itself, did you install the udev rules?

Handbrake has access to all your files by default so that shouldn't be an issue.

What Flatpaks did you have issues with?

Probably the biggest one is the next piece of the Wayland session restore puzzle clicking into place: David Edmundson has implemented support for the xx-session-management-v1 Wayland session restore protocol in Qt 6.10! This means that software built on top of Qt 6.10 (for example, Plasma and KDE apps) will be able to start implementing the protocol themselves. Once they do, then finally real session restore will work on Wayland

I hope we’re able to opt out of apps positioning their own Windows. My favorite thing about Wayland is that apps can’t control where their windows open, so they always open in a consistent location chosen by the compositor.

Annoys me whenever I use Windows, MacOS, or Xwayland apps that open up in seemingly random locations.

Fortunately this update won’t require additional porting work over 1.21.6. It’s just minor fixes.

I’m not a fan of how they do drops either. Makes updates feel less special, I can barely remember the names of the drops, and makes things more complicated for modders.

It’s not surprising you ran into issues.

KDE’s Wayland session sucked 3 years ago, it only started becoming usable for me with 5.27. Before, Plasmashell would commonly crash.

Both have improved quite a bit since 2022. Though Gnome Wayland has always been pretty stable, just lacking some features.

The benefit for Amazon is good PR and supporting open source projects their engineers use.

Gnome isn't locked-in. For being an important open source project, AWS has given Gnome credits so that they can use AWS free of charge for years. Once those credits expire, they are free to leave. So long as they do their proper preparation to migrate away, they get multiple years of hosting for free.

Gnome has already been in this circumstance. Their free hosting from another provider expired so they moved. Though as I'm researching this, I can't find the sources I've read this from.

Could you please explain further?

How does free infrastructure hosting from AWS hurt anyone? There’s no privacy concerns and this helps Gnome’s development.

The only way this will hurt is if Gnome is not prepared to switch away once their credits are up.