[lobstrosity420]

The people that characterize GNOME this way are desperate to identify themselves with a certain sub group of Linux users that prides themselves in doing things the hardest possible way (such as recompiling your terminal every time you want to change the font size) because it makes them feel 1337. Don't sweat it too much, it's just a little bit of garden variety internet tribalism.

[anthk]

Not leet. Gnome is unusable in any machine older than 2015. Also, CWM flies on my 2007 netbook.

[zxzax]

I completely disagree, I'm using GNOME on a laptop from 2008 now. It's working fine for me. I did tweak it a little bit however.