Comment by shevy-java
4 days ago
> Decisions like these have to be taken based on what the target audience for a desktop wishes.
Ok: can you show us the poll done by GNOME devs here? Please add the URL.
4 days ago
> Decisions like these have to be taken based on what the target audience for a desktop wishes.
Ok: can you show us the poll done by GNOME devs here? Please add the URL.
A poll done by GNOME devs will largely be answered by people who are power users. Knowing your target audience is harder than just polling your users or taking telemetry (in this case, because telemetry normally excludes power users, since they will disable it).
I think it's just clear that the proposal of the GNOME desktop is to be pretty democratic, both in types of devices it can run on and the variety of users. The project gets a lot of shit for many decisions it takes (some of which I also disagree with), but I think changing this default is absolutely justified.