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I think Gnome's defaults appeal to people who don't want to work with GUIs but have to. For a lot of people it's a comfortably simple container for a terminal, web interface, or GUI driven config management tool and nothing else.

Then they log off, and go back to their polished MacOS or Windows machines to play games or watch movies.

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>I think Gnome's defaults appeal to people who don't want to work with GUIs but have to.

I feel like this would apply better to stuff like i3, IceWM, OpenBox etc. , no? Gnome is definitely for those who want to use a GUI, not get rid of it, otherwise they would use something a lot more minimalistic instead of something that eats up 1.2+ GB of ram just to launch an app.

>For a lot of people it's a comfortably simple container for a terminal, web interface, or GUI driven config management tool and nothing else.

But you can do that with absolutely every WM/DE though.

Speaking only for myself, I did use bspwm for a good while, but ultimately I got tired of maintaining it. I'm looking for something that feels similar but is more out of the box. GNOME is the best I've found for that so far.

Yeah kind of. But configuring them is a chore that not everybody got an appetite for. Plus WMs lack the convenience apps which proper DEs provide out of the box.

Yeah this is me tbh - except I do use GUI apps as needed e.g. I game with Steam and play around with Godot (both in flatpaks).

But ultimately, I am in a terminal probably 90% of my time, and I want a DE that facilitates that... which GNOME does.

2nd sentence is not always true. I for one, staying with Gnome precisely because what you described in the first sentence.

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