This is an interesting read and it is truthful. I understand frustrations with GNOME. Since GNOME 3/Shell (when was that released... 2011?) came out it was met

This is an interesting read and it is truthful. I understand frustrations with GNOME. Since GNOME 3/Shell (when was that released... 2011?) came out it was met with a lot of controversy. I remember people sticking with GNOME2. There was also a GNOME legacy or something... where you can use GNOME3 but kept a lot of the familiarities to GNOME2. I think Plasma/KDE was having its own share of issues at the time, but were different issue. For me, I don't mind GNOME3 but I may not be using it to the level many do. I am in Emacs most of the time. When GNOME3 was in the distros, I didn't mind it. I understood what they were trying to do, a balance of an environment that could be used for PCs, Tablets, Phones, etc. Back in 2012 I think the assumption, since the rise of smart phones, that our future would be the slow death of desktop/latop PCs. Today, that future does not seem close. Its not like desktops/laptops have been replaced with phones (or PDA) that you use to clock in/out and plug into your monitors to do work. While I think that future will happen, it wont be for some time. Microsoft went this route with Windows 8 and it failed! They soon reverted back to their "typical" theme for Windows 10. GNOME, on the other hand, seem to be all-in on this approach. I am sure it is getting "better" (I have not used the latest GNOME releases) I would not be surprised there is still a lot of gripes people have - and this read seems to be good evidence for it. Maybe I am just a bit too optimistic to the GNOME team... or, maybe I just need to see doctor for my head injury. :-)