(I also don’t see Linux developers flocking to it in droves, which is sad because it is a lot cleaner and easier to use than Gnome and KDE, IMHO, but then again Linux has always been more about diverging choices than unity—and I don’t mean the desktop environment here).
The only thing Elementary needs to do is allow for disabling all animations, to get rid of the perceived latency issues some folk complain about...
But I digress. It isn’t an OS, and you get all the Linux legacy underneath, so it’s understandable that Fuchsia is happening. Google seems to be attempting to lay a new foundation here, and I think it’s actually a good idea to do so, although the number of third-party packages and run times they’re bringing in makes it hard to peg it as “legacy-free”.
Time will tell, I guess.
1. What hardware are you running? 2. Do you pay for apps? 3. Are you able to use this as your primary machine? 4. What kind of work do you do?
I understand the appeal of more up-to-date stuff, but with Docker I can have my stable cake and swap toppings at will :)
This is actually what I most like about Google's OS initiative. The fact we'll have ONE and ONLY ONE desktop environment and all the political infighting of the last 30 years won't matter any more.
The irony here, I think, is Pantheon actually completed this goal with a much smaller team, with no political bullshit, and is a clearly superior product.
By virtue of this fact, and by your reasoning, Gnome3 has no reason to continue to exist at all and should end development if, truly, Linux is meant to have a One True Desktop Environment (tm).
I wish it had more adoption. Right now there are not a lot of apps written using it's UI guidelines/framework as most projects are worried about portability and/or have moved to Electron. It is slowly getting better though, and seems to be developing an ecosystem geared towards quality as OSX used to be: https://medium.com/elementaryos/appcenter-spotlight-2017-wra...