> including myriads of small applications we take for granted As someone who runs Arch with KDE and an intentionally different Gnome theme just so I can notice

> including myriads of small applications we take for granted As someone who runs Arch with KDE and an intentionally different Gnome theme just so I can notice the apps I use running Gnome, there aren't too many. In Ubuntu-space, definitely, since their entire ecosystem was built on gnome, but in general you can easily get a gnome-less Linux.