Wow, I disagree with you on almost every point! :) Which is not a bad thing, people naturally have different perspectives after all. I tried to like GNOME for l

Wow, I disagree with you on almost every point! :) Which is not a bad thing, people naturally have different perspectives after all. I tried to like GNOME for literally years, but as a power user found that it got in my way more often than not: * Features that I got accustomed to and used on a daily basis got removed in order to clean up some module or another, under the justification that "nobody used it anyway." Well, nobody asked me apparently? Requests to bring these features back were politely declined or ignored. * GNOME seemed to go all-in on a "hybrid computing" experience because the developers believed that the future was portable devices that you could both carry around with you and then dock to a keyboard and screen at work or home. That never materialized (or hasn't materialized yet) so now a lot of GNOME functionality is stuck _between_ these two worlds and doesn't mesh cleanly with either. * The GNOME devs' answer to functionality not invented here is to just make an extension for it. Except that installing extensions is (or was?) a burdensome affair, and GNOME breaks the extension API often enough that you might not be able to upgrade your GNOME if the extensions you use haven't been updated by their maintainers. * As a desktop user, I want to be able to resize windows. But, there are no longer any window borders. Instead, there is an area that you can grab with the mouse to resize the window. But it's invisible, you can't _see_ it unless you hover your mouse over it. And it's on the _inside_ of the window, meaning it actually covers up application controls. Thus, you can place your mouse cursor directly over a scroll bar, click, start dragging, and find yourself resizing the window instead of scrolling the document. * Don't get me started on the thicc window title bars. * I prefer focus-follows-mouse and this is just super-duper broken in GNOME, in a number of ways. I think software developers would do well to get away from the idea that their one project can possibly be suitable for all users. We clearly have users with different goals and levels of experience and it's not a bad thing to more narrowly target those users.