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Why has a submission about nouveau's website devolved into Gnome/gnome devs bad, gib upvotes lol
Man I couldn't be a Linux dev. Giving up your time to do highly skilled work for free, then you get roundly hated for it and called a piece of shit by the very people who are benefitting from your free work lol. It'd burn me out pretty quickly.
E: the other comments appear to have been removed. It was just a circlejerk about Gnome devs being evil, and mocking the dev here for having mental health struggles related to the amount of hate they receive.
Gnome I think is the best hope for mainstream adoption if that ever actually happens
Shows off a lot of the advantages of Linux desktop without needing to spend hours configuring it for it to look nice and work great
I feel for that the default Linux DE will need to have an UI closer to Windows, due to user familiarity with the traditional desktop metaphor. Maybe Cinnamon or even KDE are more suited in that respect. Neither need hours of configuring either. Personally, Cinnamon with Wayland support would be perfect for me (and I suspect a whole lot of Windows migrants as well).
Gnome is nice of course in it's own minimalist way for many,but the workflow is very different from other OSes and I think many find it too minimalist requiring extensions to improve usability therefore. However, there isn't a stable mechanism for extensions causing breakages between versions, which can be very irritating. I don't know if that's now changed now though, because I have been reading about a major change in the extension mechanism in Gnome 45.
I think that's what makes it great for newcomers though. If you show them something pretending to be windows they'll think why not just use windows, if you show them something better they might be more impressed
Coming from Windows gnome was pretty intuitive for me, it's got much of the same workflow still even if buttons are in different places
Gnome 3 is made to be like osx. Osx is popular in usa.