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If we divided Gnome right out of the open source community, we wouldn't have lost much.
It'd be a massive loss. The best DE would be gone.
Naw, Cinnamon will still be here.
Lmao
A coherent ecosystem...of blank windows with not enough functionality crammed into a hamburger menu made the way it is mostly for aesthetics. A workflow that doesn't make sense to most people who are trained on PCs. A dev team who hate their users.
No thanks.
If you want this use KDE. I for one am very happy to use a desktop that doesn't follow 30 year old design.
Do you type on a QWERTY keyboard?
This is an entirely irrelevant argument. Do you use a dial up modem? We can replace things sometimes.
If we lost the open source community will have gained.