> Existing DEs have centuries of collective engineering hours poured into them. Some of hem have even thrown a lot of that collective engineering hours away by

> Existing DEs have centuries of collective engineering hours poured into them. Some of hem have even thrown a lot of that collective engineering hours away by deciding to rewrite entire parts! > They work. Arguably, but I say they sometimes don't. That alone is worth considering alternatives. > There is no compelling reason to throw that all away. Sure there is. This one is written in rust and the others support javashit. > Likely a new system will be worse along every metric of concern for the foreseeable future Ahh you must have short sightedness. It won't be hard to improve performance of a few key metrics: * reduced crashiness * reduced memory footprint * improved UI responsiveness * cold boot to desktop time It shouldn't be that hard to be an improvement over Gnome in memory utilization or KDE in crashiness.