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Gnome assumes developers don’t have an insane amount of time to spend on their open source desktop apps. And that users deserve high quality apps that work well

Gnome assumes developers don’t have an insane amount of time to spend on their open source desktop apps. And that users deserve high quality apps that work well together. So Gnome devs, seeing the vast majority of bug reports that developers of first and third party apps received were a result of the large number of configurations and extensions and customizations have decided to rein it back. Doing so means Gnome developers can start with a smaller footprint which they will now expand to add customizations back in a supported manner. It’s a different approach. The good thing is that with Linux different groups can try different approaches and users can switch relatively painlessly between them. So far, having gotten a lot more responsibilities with growing older, I’ve found that letting Gnome pick sensible defaults, etc, and not requiring me to spend a lot of time and mental energy configuring stuff has meant that Gnome has been the most productive general use Desktop in my personal life (i3 for work life…).

cuteboy19 4y ago
The issue is that everyone needs at least one or two customisations that they can't live without, even though they don't need all of them. And so they end up installing gnome tweaks which is a buggy mess which will never be fixed, as with most third party extensions. In comparison, even though there are a lot of bugs in KDE, they will eventually be fixed, given that most customisations are first party.
- asdajksah2123 4y ago
  Seems like you prefer the KDE model. Great! Use KDE! I, unfortunately, have a limited amount of time and prefer not waiting for those bugs to eventually be resolved. So I prefer using Gnome, where the limited flexibility is not a problem for me, and the far more consistent and stable Gnome environment is extremely valuable! So I use Gnome. That's the great part about Linux. And I can somehow manage to do that without suggesting that KDE developers need to stop treating their users like a bunch of kids with no jobs living in their mother's basements. Many in the Linux community seem incapable of doing that second thing, which is the crappy part about Linux.

cuteboy19 4y ago

The issue is that everyone needs at least one or two customisations that they can't live without, even though they don't need all of them. And so they end up installing gnome tweaks which is a buggy mess which will never be fixed, as with most third party extensions. In comparison, even though there are a lot of bugs in KDE, they will eventually be fixed, given that most customisations are first party.

asdajksah2123 4y ago
Seems like you prefer the KDE model. Great! Use KDE! I, unfortunately, have a limited amount of time and prefer not waiting for those bugs to eventually be resolved. So I prefer using Gnome, where the limited flexibility is not a problem for me, and the far more consistent and stable Gnome environment is extremely valuable! So I use Gnome. That's the great part about Linux. And I can somehow manage to do that without suggesting that KDE developers need to stop treating their users like a bunch of kids with no jobs living in their mother's basements. Many in the Linux community seem incapable of doing that second thing, which is the crappy part about Linux.