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GNOME keeps making absurdly bad decisions about pretty much everything, and wantonly removing features that even average desktop users expect. For example, you

GNOME keeps making absurdly bad decisions about pretty much everything, and wantonly removing features that even average desktop users expect. For example, you need an extension to enable putting files/icons on the desktop (!?!?!). And the APIs for GNOME extensions are constantly changing, so the extensions are constantly breaking. Not to mention, the extensions are written in JavaScript and if they crash, the entire shell crashes. It's absolutely insane. It seems like they want to lock down the UI to customization even more than MacOS and Windows do. I see GNOME as basically a dead end at this point.

LinAGKar 5y ago
>if they crash, the entire shell crashes And the entire session if you're on Wayland
preisschild 5y ago
> For example, you need an extension to enable putting files/icons on the desktop (!?!?!). Was so happy about the decision to remove desktop icons. You basically never get there anyways and its just cluttering up the background when you do. Here's a funny thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/l8euqf/i_get_why_they_removed_it_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/l8euqf/i_get_why_the... Btw, there were some misconceptions about "disallowing theming". I recommend giving this a read: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-are-not-telling-you-about-themes/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a... I totally understand your point about extensions though.