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A comment on Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Contest (2019).

Re:Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Conte... by graemep on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:51AM (#42862917)
It seems somewhat contradictory. "many just want a launcher" and "because of Gnome’s size and decades of development, they can also have the ecosystem that DEs like LXDE and Xfce lack" seem contradictory to me. They want just a launcher, but they also want lots of DE specific stuff (presumably widgets and the like).

The hostile reception KDE 4 got was more because distros made it the default too early. Activities are an optional feature you need to configure.

If the article was correct I would have expected Cinnamon and Trinity to be a lot more popular.

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Re:Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Conte... by account42 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:27AM (#42864651)
> The hostile reception KDE 4 got was more because distros made it the default too early.

That's 100% on KDE.

> Activities are an optional feature you need to configure.

Except things that were possible without Activities before were cut in favor of activities.

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Re:Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Conte... by graemep on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @05:12PM (#42871900)
> Except things that were possible without Activities before were cut in favor of activities.

What? I cannot recall anything I noticed myself.

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