Math isn't among the strong points of Gnome devs. Neither is honesty. If they were honest they would write the truth, like:
"100% of Linux desktop users love middle-button paste, but we want to muddy the waters for those 25% of them who are stupid enough to use Gnome, our sponsors will reward us for it."
I am mostly on Windows now, but once upon a time I was a GNOME fanboy, did some minor contributions to Gtkmm, the most relevant one was an article on The C/C++ User's Journal raising awarness of its existence.
When using GNU/Linux VMs with desktop experience, I never use GNOME unless I am not able to change to XFCE, KDE, or even my oldie WindowMaker. e.g. I don't own the VM.
No idea what is their supposed target audience nowadays.
> Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.
And you get people to use Linux by removing features that make Linux attractive in the first place? The mess that is Windows clipboard and cut/paste is what drove me to Linux when I started with it, and I've heard the same from other people too.
"Users of W don't know X" leads to "Let make our system like W" which is a ruse of an argument, that was pointed out already.
I encourage you to read the grandparent of your comment and specifically this quote (from ndiddy):
"I don't know why they're using familiarity as an argument when GNOME has intentionally behaved completely differently from the Windows/Mac desktop for the past 15 years."
Math isn't among the strong points of Gnome devs. Neither is honesty. If they were honest they would write the truth, like:
"100% of Linux desktop users love middle-button paste, but we want to muddy the waters for those 25% of them who are stupid enough to use Gnome, our sponsors will reward us for it."
I wholly dis^H^H^Happrove of what you say—but won't defend to the death your right to say it.
(Apologies to not Voltaire)
I am mostly on Windows now, but once upon a time I was a GNOME fanboy, did some minor contributions to Gtkmm, the most relevant one was an article on The C/C++ User's Journal raising awarness of its existence.
When using GNU/Linux VMs with desktop experience, I never use GNOME unless I am not able to change to XFCE, KDE, or even my oldie WindowMaker. e.g. I don't own the VM.
No idea what is their supposed target audience nowadays.
Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.
> Yes, you don't make that 4 percent bigger unless you get people who don't use Linux to use Linux.
And you get people to use Linux by removing features that make Linux attractive in the first place? The mess that is Windows clipboard and cut/paste is what drove me to Linux when I started with it, and I've heard the same from other people too.
"Users of W don't know X" leads to "Let make our system like W" which is a ruse of an argument, that was pointed out already.
I encourage you to read the grandparent of your comment and specifically this quote (from ndiddy):
"I don't know why they're using familiarity as an argument when GNOME has intentionally behaved completely differently from the Windows/Mac desktop for the past 15 years."