I'm kind of sick this perspective on every single announcement of every single open source project.

Clearly the people developing it aren't happy enough with Gnome or KDE and want something different. What matters is not total amount of dev effort, but if what comes out of that is something you like or not.

I'm in favor of a new DE being developed if they can bring it to maturity. The existing DEs may be good enough for most current users, but it seems that there's still something missing to work better for more casual users without relegating them to only running Chrome apps.

Aside from the technical issue mentioned in links, the ability to execute efficiently on a long-term vision needs autonomy which isn't compatible with working within a large established development group with their own directions. I personally still choose Xfce, but welcome to seeing what System76 comes up with and may switch down the road if it strikes a good balance between simplicity and capability available to power users.

They have done a pretty solid job with PopOS, so I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Conflict: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170375

those aren't written in rust!

Tribes.