[bmicraft]

Not surprising, when gnome it's already the default everywhere.

GNOME is polarizing with its feature minimalism and non-traditional desktop, and many people therefore are unhappy it's the default choice in all the big distros.

[Sammi]

Gnome is just plain not the best choice for default. More people are better served with KDE for instance.

[tuna74]

Then why are not other distros that provide other defaults "big". Why do people use distros that lack the features that they want?