Why GNOME sucks
A recent post by Adrian von Bidder got me to reread the "Printing dialogs and GNOME" thread that Linus started on the GNOME mailinglists a few years ago. I don't know how or why I missed it back then, but I did see this little gem in a post by Mike Shaver:
You and I are not interesting GNOME users, in part because we already _are_ GNOME users. The interesting GNOME users are the ones that haven't tried it yet, and we need to figure out why they haven't. There are lots of things that I want in GNOME, but if they aren't going to bring a hundred thousand of my closest friends along as well, I would hope that nobody goes out of their way to do them.
That is precisely what is wrong with the GNOME people. While encouraging new users to try and use GNOME certainly is a good and worthy goal, it is this mentality of 'only the new users matter, the existing ones can go f*ck themselves' which will ultimately drive away users.
Of course this post is a few years old, and I'm not involved in GNOME development in any way, so this mentality might have gone away now; but I don't hold my breath.
And as a smart mature man, you should know that making uninformed rants is a great way to sink your credibility.
Please talk about facts, not catch phrases, and do it in a constructive way (the title of your post is far from constructive).
The net result of your post is more negative energy, a tiny piece of the FOSS ecosystem destroyed. Ask yourself: did you make the world a better place by posting this?
First off, why the hate? Just interested in trolling the tubes, seeing what will come up?
Second, GNOME is a fine desktop environment. It meets the needs of many, and gets stuff done. It has advantages and disadvantages, but on the whole, a very popular choice for Linux users.
Lastly, while the mentality of GNOME developers is to target new users, that doesn't mean that the current users can F themselves. From that quote, it seems more like a conversion of the masses. What gets a person to use the computer? What gets a Windows person to Linux? What can the GNOME developers do to target new users? I'm sure the GNOME devs are just as worried about the current user requesting bugs, submitting feature requests, and making it a better environment overall.