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. Heavily enforced defaults are important for growth.
Wait, I think that reminds me of a desktop environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.