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Many of us were "there" in the sense that we were interested in FOSS desktops at the time. What does "there" mean in your case, and would you like to share a bit more?

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I was the release manager of GNOME 2, a very early employee at Canonical, and continued to be involved with GNOME during the GNOME 3 efforts.

OK, fair.

Thank you so much for your work! Unfortunately the project is so often dragged in mud by some loud minority, but I absolutely love it and use it every day, and I’m sure we are more numerous than the other group.

I also love Gnome. It’s my favorite DE. It gets out of the way, has a consistent UI, and is beautiful out of the box with no fiddling.

Thank you, Gnome designers and devs! (Also, I love PaperWM, and am looking forward to the tiling project y’all are brainstorming about.)

Same here, I loved gnome 3 when it came out and I still love the modern versions of gnome, and use them almost entirely stock, with just a tiling window management extension and an extension to move the overviews search function into a spotlight like pop up in the middle of the screen. I'll never be able to happily use any other window manager then modern gnome to be honest, I've tried to switch to all sorts of tiling window managers, tried to switch to xfce, and none of it felt as good and worked as well for my style of workflow and just got out of the way as easily as gnome does. And I can't even stand looking at kde, because all of its paddings and alignments and font sizes and stuff are just so awkwardly chosen, and no theme can easily fix that.

I hated Gnome 3 when it first came out because none of the stuff I was used to worked there. Now it's like four or so plugins for all I want, so I love Gnome 3!

I was the lead developer of Unity and the creator of Ubuntu Netbook Remix and can also confirm the article isn’t slightly true.

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