[fulalas]

I assume you didn't read whole the article. By the end it says the author (who happens to be me) is a Linux developer who work in Porteus distro. It doesn't matter anyway. What matters is that basically all desktop environments and also Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS have native support to desktop icons. And it's not a surprise that many major distros ship GNOME with desktop icons extension installed/enabled by default.

I tried to be clear about this 'paradigm' thing but it seems I failed. There's nothing wrong with changing the paradigm. The problem is that GNOME did that in a less efficient way, although claiming the contrary.