Comment by bombcar
4 years ago
If Apple or Microsoft had something like this "misfeature" in their OS, they could and likely would lose sales.
GNOME has no customers and can't lose sales, therefore they don't have to care at all.
4 years ago
If Apple or Microsoft had something like this "misfeature" in their OS, they could and likely would lose sales.
GNOME has no customers and can't lose sales, therefore they don't have to care at all.
> If Apple or Microsoft had something like this "misfeature" in their OS, they could and likely would lose sales.
I disagree. Microsoft and Apple[1] had both had immense blunders that users hated, yet those users still paid money for the blunders.
At least with Gnome, people switched.
[1] I've used almost all the Window Managers and Desktop environments since 1995, I've used Windows since 1995. The current apple GUI is more painful to figure out than I had expected when I started using it last year. It's easily one of the least intuitive environments that I've come across, and watching non-tech users struggle with it reinforces my point.
Sure - not everyone will stop using it, but some will, and that's lost sales. Even if it can't be quantified, the concept can be "sold" to some executive and get the problem fixed.
I mean, GNOME is the default on several commercially supported distributions. Redhat is the largest contributor. Granted, a lot of those commercially supported distributions are for customers who don't care about GUI uses but Ubuntu and RHEL/Fedora have a decent number of workstation users. KDE/Plasma have much less commercial support (AFAIK) and are probably closer to what you're saying, but at least to my tastes manage to be much more sensible.
But does anyone buy those - the very term "commercially supported" implies it's being marketed toward companies (think: enterprise) and everyone knows enterprise software is the most user-friendly ever invented (oh wait, the users are the purchasers).