• aleph@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It may not be of interest to you personally, but the growing popularity of tiling window managers means there’s a lot of demand for this type of feature.

    As long as they give the user the ability to opt out/in, what’s the harm in introducing it?

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      1 year ago

      Not going against Gnome here, but against your last sentence.

      As long as they give the user the ability to opt out/in, what’s the harm in introducing it?

      Pretty sure systemd did this with a lot of things and started removing things they just didn’t like. Can’t find the website I wanted to link, but it included a lot of reasons why systemd isn’t good (for example, binary logging. Why ?) “You can always opt out” doesn’t work in the real world ; people don’t care enough to switch. Why do you think google is the biggest search engine ? Mainly because it’s the default everywhere.

      In this context I guess it doesn’t matter (and I couldn’t see myself using gnome, even if it has some good polish), it’s just that “you can always opt out” leaves a bad taste on my tongue.