McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 16, 2022 12:04 UTC (Wed) by jd (guest, #26381)
In reply to: McGovern: Handing over by eharris
Parent article: McGovern: Handing over

The thing about Linux GUIs is that you can swap GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment or any of the others (I used to love OpenLook) so that the system worked the way you thought and the way you liked. You were never forced to change to suit the system, the system changed to suit you.

GNOME3, like all the other options, had strengths and weaknesses. Which is a Good Thing, because the only way to have a codebase do everything well is to have a codebase that is the superset of all possible features. Which would be big. Because GNOME3 differed so much from GNOME2, it was best to treat it as a different option rather than an upgrade to an existing one. That's fine, GNOME2 was forked so continued, and the ecosystem grew more diverse and the greater for it.