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Nobody should try anything new in the DE space because more mature things have been established with far more engineering hours?

That's odd to me. You don't think they'll look at the design and learn from the advances made during those centuries of hours? That's hardly throwing it all away.

[AtlasBarfed]

Nothing has been "established" in the linux desktop. It's comprehensively lost in the marketplace for the last two decades. Gnome and KDE are at this point losing approaches, both have scrubbed progress several times for major rewrite revisions that promised several steps forward for one step back. Problem is, they never really made the steps forward in terms of market share.

Linux can't even win the software developer wars. How is OSX, which can barely run docker, has a linux incompatible CLI, and requires relearning keybindings if you come from windows or linux desktops, and is steadily jailing its applications into a store, winning the desktop OS wars among software devs that are probably all running linux derivatives in K8s or VMs?

A good team that knows DEs and the current DE codebases can probably work wonders.