I'm often the first to attack Gnome for doing something counter-user but on TFA's opening charge… > the most limited and bloated desktop environment … I strug

I'm often the first to attack Gnome for doing something counter-user but on TFA's opening charge… > the most limited and bloated desktop environment … I struggle because for all its developer-instigated limitations, Gnome performs really well. Usually that translates to Mutter is really good at getting out of the way of the rendering pipeline, but to users it means the same thing. It also gets a ton of community support to resurrect a lot of the butchered features through extensions. The JS API is pretty decent and as it improves —and we stop expecting Gnome to look after anything but itself— that Gnome could be the most flexible desktop. They do a lot of things wrong at Gnome —stemming from a plethora of individuals having too much unchecked design power— but the display server stuff isn't bad at all.