[_2paq]

Yes, let's search for the One True Font, One True Theme, and Unicorns while we're at it. Oh, let's also pretend that we'll give users a choice. Well, technically, we will but we will make it "unsupported" and call it a hack.

Wait, I think that reminds me of a desktop environment.

[Klonoar]

shrug

You can have as much snark as you want. I specifically said that Linux should remain the platform of choice, just that the defaults should be stronger so that it's a more consistent and approachable platform for people.

GNOME has made great advancements in this regard, which has been awesome to see.

[_2paq]

> just that the defaults should be stronger

Agreed.

> GNOME has made great advancements in this regard, which has been awesome to see.

I wasn't joking or being hyperbolic in my previous post. GNOME may have good defaults in certain cases but it ends there. User choice and customization are seen as design defects and anti-features. They really do believe that there is a One True Font and One True Theme out there and anything else is unsupported.

Sane defaults shouldn't come at the cost of user choice. If they do, there's little reason to use Linux over a Mac because the former essentially becomes Android style "look but don't touch" open source.

[samtheDamned]

Some people don't want to configure everything about their desktop. Most people don't. They just want something that looks nice and feels good to use. Apple's ecosystem is expensive and locked in while gnome/linux is open and works with as much hardware and software as possible, on top of that it's free. Also the software experience is different too, while on Mac software that involves any personalization or enhances the desktop is paid, while gnome/linux is free and almost all software that enhances the desktop is also free and open source software. Their opinions on UI/UX might be similar but that's where the majority of their similarities end.

[_2paq]

> Some people don't want to configure everything about their desktop. Most people don't. They just want something that looks nice and feels good to use.

And that would be completely fine were it not for parent posts which imply that GNOME should be the default and the only experience on the Linux desktop and everything else is irrelevant fragmentation. I respect users choice to use GNOME but I don't appreciate when people call everything else besides GNOME (or anything really) as fragmentation.

For example, here's one of the parent posts

> There is no reason there can’t be one agreed upon blessed way of doing things in Linux while still enabling users like you to have choice.

This is pretty oxymoronic.

[Klonoar]

>And that would be completely fine were it not for parent posts which imply that GNOME should be the default and the only experience on the Linux desktop and everything else is irrelevant fragmentation.

To be ultra clear here: I'm not saying it has to be GNOME. I legitimately only said GNOME to toss you a bone when you responded with a needlessly sarcastic comment. ;P

It could be any DE, even a newly created one.

No part of your posts feels productive, and to be honest they feel like emotional backlash.

[_2paq]

> It could be any DE, even a newly created one.

Like I said earlier,

> but I don't appreciate when people call everything else besides GNOME (or *anything really*) as fragmentation.

The idea of "one agreed upon blessed way of doing things" implies that a DE can be made to work for everyone, which is a false assumption. Just because Windows and Mac follow this philosophy, doesn't mean that it's right. Diversity and independence of thought isn't irrelevant fragmentation.