I'm unhappy with gnome too, but I run a distro because I'd prefer to do doing something other than writing my own OS from scratch. Unfortunately, because gnome

I'm unhappy with gnome too, but I run a distro because I'd prefer to do doing something other than writing my own OS from scratch. Unfortunately, because gnome is what most people use and what the distro defaults to other choices are inherently second class. I happily used xmonad for years, but eventually got forced out of it due to compatibility especially once things started using wayland. I wonder if us desktop users need a pact of the form that we'll stop using gnome completely of 51% of other users also stop using gnome. :)