Comment by simion314
4 days ago
but does a BSD user want GNOME? GNOME target users are more casual, too many options are too much for them.
4 days ago
but does a BSD user want GNOME? GNOME target users are more casual, too many options are too much for them.
I don't know, but given that e.g. FreeBSD has an entire team dedicated to keeping GNOME working with whatever hacks are necessary, presumably there are at least enough to volunteer for such work.
Anyway, my point was more broadly that Gnome and its surrounding software ecosystem is explicitly and openly Linux-first and have no qualms introducing dependencies like systemd that make it that much harder to get it working everywhere else. I'm pretty sure I've seen Gnome folk straight up say that they simply don't care about anything other than Linux. So unfortunately it's not always that simple to move the apps over.
(KDE, on the other hand, is pretty BSD-friendly.)