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They managed to remove me from their user base.

Once upon a time I used to advocate for GNOME, including an article about Gtkmm on the The C/C++ User's Journal.

Now I just use XFCE on the surviving Linux netbook I still own.

If the point of the Linux desktop is more choices then I'd say Gnome is kinda against that philosophy. They're the Apple of the Linux world and not in a very good way either.

If only, at least macOS has a proper desktop framework.

What is the rationale behind removing desktop icons ?