Desert Angler on Nostr: Long time #linux user here. I don't know (remember?) when Gnome was first released, ...
Long time #linux user here. I don't know (remember?) when Gnome was first released, but I am pretty sure I have been using linux for longer than the Gnome project has existed. Over the many years, I have seen the Gnome project make many mistakes, and then ignore the community of users who get upset with the changes. This fragmented the community into many sub-camps, Gnome 3, Unity, Cinnamon, Pop, Mate, XFCE, etc. With that fragmentation there was no cohesion of the bread and butter applications, until the Mint folks started building the universal xapps. I use Gnome 3 today on Ubuntu, but only to be familiar with it as I was doing Corporate Desktop Linux engineering, but I will soon be returning to Cinnamon because it is a better over-all user experience for me, and many others. This is a long winded way of saying, the Gnome development community, or maybe Red Hat (perhaps that is redundant) drives people who may contribute away.
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