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I like gnome DE, I dislike the arrogance of the project team.
My straw was the login-to-exposé thing.
Can you elaborate for the curious? I tried searching but couldn't find anything. What's the login to exposé thing?
Once upon a time, when you logged in you arrived at the desktop. Then typically you'd click a docked application icon or use the hot corner to open the overview (Apple calls it exposé on macOS) and search for an application to start. Some people would just hit the keyboard shortcut and start typing an application name. Very quick.
One day, the gnome team decided that since a lot of people do this, that immediately after logging in you'd arrive directly at this overview/exposé mode ready to type an app name.
Quite a few people didn't like this change, and requested a setting so they could enable/disable it as was their preference. The response from the gnome team was essentially 'get fucked' enshrouded by weak/nonsense justifications for the change and for not making it optional, apparently taking the request as some kind of personal attack.
It was a trivial minor change but the way the team handled it was... lacking.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like the GNOME3 team.
For years, they fought back against giving users the option to change where their dock is, forcing them to be stuck with an asinine vertical dock because "vertical space is at a premium."
They do this because they're lazy and incompetent. They simply do not want more work for themselves and will browbeat any of their users into doing things the "stupid gnome3 way."
Their designers are some of the dumbest people in the industry. Since they have a yes-man/echo chamber culture, they don't ever get to learn from their mistakes because nobody holds them accountable for failure.