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by QUrprUd1nCeicw 1255 days ago
Please stop with the conspiracy theories. GNOME is still very much a volunteer project. And KDE also gets corporate contributions too which they're very grateful to receive.

GNOME isn't really against "choice" either, they just optimize for a different workflow.
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bruce511 1255 days ago
I'm thinking maybe there are two distinct groups of people. One group choose their OS and love to fiddle and fine tune its behaviour.

Another group have their OS chosen for them by their employer. They don't care about the OS, or software in general - they just want to get through the day.

Perhaps KDE is well suited to one group and Gnome to another?

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QUrprUd1nCeicw 1255 days ago
GNOME can be fiddled with, just not in the same way as KDE.

And KDE can simplified for installation on work computers, just not in the same way as GNOME.

Personally I use GNOME now because it fits my current workflow better, but in the past I had a different workflow and I used KDE more. I still have both of them installed so it's not difficult to switch.

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johnny22 1254 days ago
> Another group have their OS chosen for them by their employer. They don't care about the OS, or software in general - they just want to get through the day.

People like Linus Torvalds didn't get their OS chosen for them, but still chose kept Fedora's GNOME default.

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account42 1248 days ago
> default

Sounds like someone else did make the choice for Linus, even if it could have been overruled.

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raverbashing 1255 days ago
> they just optimize for a different workflow.

Usually of the people that just work with a giant terminal session with screen and that's it.

No, really, because having a terminal application where "Tab Next" doesn't wrap around just goes to show how worried they are about users outside that niche (and yes maybe they fixed this now, but come on)

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