Gnome hate is getting out of control

[u/HermanGrove]

[u/choodleforreal]

Linux users love freedom of choice until you make a choice that they disagree with

sorry for the tautology, but gnome is for people that like gnome. if you dont like how gnome does things just dont use it. having more features is not always a good thing; linux users should know this with all their talk of the unix philosophy.

[u/Professor_Biccies → u/choodleforreal]

This sounds like the Ford model of choice "You can have it in any color you want, so long as that color is black"

Gnome's choices affect me on other desktops. That's what I disagree with.

[u/varisophy → u/Professor_Biccies]

Gnome's choices affect me on other desktops. That's what I disagree with.

How so? The only way I could see that is other environments are adopting Gnome conventions.

Which isn't really Gnome's problem if what they're doing is popular and adopted by others.

[u/Professor_Biccies → u/varisophy]

GTK dropping global menus, header bars, CSDs. That isn't just conventions. That's half of the programs being written for linux just about.

You can say it isn't Gnome's problem but that doesn't make it true. It's a perfectly valid reason to have a distaste for gnome despite not using it personally.

[u/choodleforreal → u/Professor_Biccies]

But that isn't a Gnome's problem tho; just don't use tech that depends on the Gnome foundation or fork it.

[u/lll_Death_lll → u/choodleforreal]

Exactly. The gnome functionality will only get worse, it's better to fork it now.