I long ago realized that I was far, far away from GNOME's target audience. If I have to install a half dozen plugins just to get things to behave the way I expe

I long ago realized that I was far, far away from GNOME's target audience. If I have to install a half dozen plugins just to get things to behave the way I expect them to, then the answer is a resounding NO. These days, I gravitate to XFCE for virtual machines, low-power systems, and remote desktops, and Cinnamon for full-fat machines with a GPU. Why am I not surprised that GNOME would adopt flat design? I know it's trendy, but any time I have to use a recent Windows flat-design application (hello Visual Studio!) I find it annoying - it becomes a lot harder to determine whether something is a modal popup or an independent window.