Yes Linux is more popular than ever, But when Gnome changed to Gnome Shell Linux marketshare clearly declined. That Linux has begun to rise again, is definitely not because of Gnome Shell but more despite of it.
I absolutely love how developers can do their own thing on Linux, as they say scratch your own itch.
Problem with Gnome was that the team was extremely arrogant, completely dismissed any criticism, and even rejected contributions that would remedy some of the problems. Gnome was a weird community project that didn’t give a shit about the community, and abandoned everything they used to stand for.
I wouldn’t normally have a problem with that, except Gnome’s behavior was harmful to the Linux community as a whole IMO, they abandoned their own community, deprecating gnome 2 before gnome shell was ready. They made life for other desktop projects harder, if they wanted to create an environment that supported Gnome together with other desktop environments, and for other desktop environments that wanted to allow to run programs made for Gnome somewhat seamlessly, which was tradition at the time.
How you cannot see that that is harmful and detrimental to Linux as a whole I don’t understand. Also remember Gnome had a vastly dominant presence on the Linux desktop, with about 80% user share of desktop environments. So what they decided to do, had immense influence on Linux as a whole.
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I just found that today Gnome is now only about 20% according to Arch packagestats. I can’t find good stats for marketshare between Linux desktops.
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I don’t get why this comment is so unpopular. Maybe because some people misunderstand when I talk about Desktop compatibility. I’m not talking about how things look or work from a visual and user perspective, but the ability to run Gnome apps at all on other desktops, which worked very fluently between all Linux DE before Gnome Shell. It has Nothing to do with whether I like the looks and feel of Gnome, I actually kind of like that, except for a few regressions. The deprecation of Gnome 2 was too soon, because they did that before Gnome shell was ready, that was also IMO a pretty obvious fuck you to their own users. All in all it created uncertainty of the validity of using Linux.
Feel free to find better stat, as I write I can’t find a good stat, so pretty clearly I don’t expect it to be 100% representative.
But for sure Gnome does nolonger enjoy the 80% they had before Gnome Shell.
Yeah, it’s kinda hard to find good stats because Linux users hate telemetry. I doubt there is an accurate desktop environments market share stats out there. Might as well conduct our own poll here and see the stats for this community.
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13 years, and there’s still no feature parity.
Yes Linux is more popular than ever, But when Gnome changed to Gnome Shell Linux marketshare clearly declined. That Linux has begun to rise again, is definitely not because of Gnome Shell but more despite of it.
I absolutely love how developers can do their own thing on Linux, as they say scratch your own itch.
Problem with Gnome was that the team was extremely arrogant, completely dismissed any criticism, and even rejected contributions that would remedy some of the problems. Gnome was a weird community project that didn’t give a shit about the community, and abandoned everything they used to stand for.
I wouldn’t normally have a problem with that, except Gnome’s behavior was harmful to the Linux community as a whole IMO, they abandoned their own community, deprecating gnome 2 before gnome shell was ready. They made life for other desktop projects harder, if they wanted to create an environment that supported Gnome together with other desktop environments, and for other desktop environments that wanted to allow to run programs made for Gnome somewhat seamlessly, which was tradition at the time.
How you cannot see that that is harmful and detrimental to Linux as a whole I don’t understand. Also remember Gnome had a vastly dominant presence on the Linux desktop, with about 80% user share of desktop environments. So what they decided to do, had immense influence on Linux as a whole.
Edit:
I just found that today Gnome is now only about 20% according to Arch packagestats. I can’t find good stats for marketshare between Linux desktops.
Edit2:
I don’t get why this comment is so unpopular. Maybe because some people misunderstand when I talk about Desktop compatibility. I’m not talking about how things look or work from a visual and user perspective, but the ability to run Gnome apps at all on other desktops, which worked very fluently between all Linux DE before Gnome Shell. It has Nothing to do with whether I like the looks and feel of Gnome, I actually kind of like that, except for a few regressions. The deprecation of Gnome 2 was too soon, because they did that before Gnome shell was ready, that was also IMO a pretty obvious fuck you to their own users. All in all it created uncertainty of the validity of using Linux.
You can’t seriously believe Arch is representative of the overall Linux desktop space…
Feel free to find better stat, as I write I can’t find a good stat, so pretty clearly I don’t expect it to be 100% representative.
But for sure Gnome does nolonger enjoy the 80% they had before Gnome Shell.
Yeah, it’s kinda hard to find good stats because Linux users hate telemetry. I doubt there is an accurate desktop environments market share stats out there. Might as well conduct our own poll here and see the stats for this community.
Absolutely, I’m a bit puzzled why I’m downvoted on that one? 🤔
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