I don’t - and yet I work on the same OS, writing the same code and scripts using the same tools (clang, bazel, python). Gnome is not a defining part of a moder

I don’t - and yet I work on the same OS, writing the same code and scripts using the same tools (clang, bazel, python). Gnome is not a defining part of a modern linux system, it is just one choice of many DEs. And a large fraction of Linux systems don’t run any DE at all.