Lobotomizing Gnome

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>> With all those choices given to them, these people are so utterly selfish and lacking in common decency, they can't see how appropriate and important it is that those developing the software also have the freedom to choose what direction they take the fruits of their labor. As I stated elsewhere in this thread: Sometimes you don't get to choose. If GNOME is the only desktop environment on your employer's enterprise Linux distro and you do not have root or other window manager choices due to corporate security policies then the GNOME devs' vision is what you get. Yes, it sucks to not have more options, but it is what it is. >> It reminds me of children having tantrums when mom doesn't cook the free meal they want, instead cooking what mom and dad like. That's what entitled foss users resemble, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them actually are children so what should we expect. Unsurprisingly, people do not like to be force-fed food they do not like: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/ https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-7d96c3287f7 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design_is_antipattern/ https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Moves_against_Themes https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming-wider-community-not-happy/ It's condescending and offensive to treat others as children just because they disagree with a designer's "grand vision".

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I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation. However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/ https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-7d96c3287f7 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design_is_antipattern/ https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Moves_against_Themes https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming-wider-community-not-happy/ When a designer's "coherent vision" eclipses the needs of the software's users then users get frustrated and either fork the project or go to another project. MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/), Cinnamon (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon) exist largely because of how far the GNOME 3 designers went and how they were not willing to compromise their "coherent vision": https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910 https://web.archive.org/web/20101129161856/http://www.pcworld.com/article/208708/canonical_ubuntu_splits_from_gnome_over_design_issues.html.

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