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I think GNOME's detractors are really vocal but the vast, vast majority of users are happy, or they'd be using KDE.

• Gigachad 5y ago
  There is a lot of truth in this. If gnome really was unusable and critically broken, why is it the default on almost every distro.
  • selfhoster11 5y ago
    GNOME is not the only criterion people use to choose a distribution. I choose my distributions based on package managers, hardware support, and stability. For package managers I only feel good with dpkg or pacman, which automatically eliminates a lot of other distros. Not all of the remainder has his hardware support, and out of that, not all of those have good stability (with updates, or software bugs). This means that for me, all that remains on the playing field are Arch Linux (because I'm more willing to tolerate it), and Ubuntu derivatives. If the price of having to use e.g. Ubuntu is having to run Gnome, I'll pay it just to get the other benefits.
    • Gigachad 5y ago
      Most distros provide DE versions and yet the gnome one is more popular with all other factors the same.
    • petepete 5y ago
      Kubuntu is an official flavour of Ubuntu; you're not locked in by any means.