There's a fair bit of people who use GNOME because it's the default (in their distro), and if I made an unsubstantiated assertion that those people outnumber th

There's a fair bit of people who use GNOME because it's the default (in their distro), and if I made an unsubstantiated assertion that those people outnumber those who are discretionary, deliberate users of GNOME, I don't think I'd be wrong. But Purism's project is heavily focused on relatability and advancing the community's current state-of-the-art [1], which is different from the more common model we've seen from other players, where they start fresh, get it working, dump the code in a public repo where it sits largely unused because it's so divergent and specific to their custom setup, and although the code is technically open, much more effort is required on part of volunteers to apply that anywhere else. Purism seems intent on actually architecting their software such that all of it can be upstreamed. GNOME, which doesn't have a strong answer to a touch-first UI metaphor, can greatly benefit from this. KDE has already done a lot of this hard work, so in a post like this, there would be fewer custom things to show off. [1] https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration/ https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration/