What i did in my last road trip (19 months) was:
It’s still a large amount of data but I can remember my trip day by day throughout 49,000 Km. (Well, less than that because I wrote the script half way)
People compare gnome to Desktops with a 30 year old interface which is painfully cumbersome but that they are used to.
I was on the no Gnome camp after Gnome 2 but came back around Gnome 40 (2022) and I was surprised at how simple and stable it is. I agree that many things that are extensions should be built in, but I also agree with the filosophy of not spreading resources to thin and if people want a feature, they can build it.
I only use two or three extensions but mostly need only one: Forge.
I still use Niri as my primary environment but I think that Gnome is good.
I grind my teeth every time I need to use an environment with an old style menu and cumbersome tiling.
C’mon. End users haven’t used drop down menues to start apps for a long time. The iOS/Android drawer style is more comfortable and can adapt to the user’s organizational preferences.
Become “so bad” is different than “I don’t like it”
A lot of people use gnome without any issues. It’s stable, it has one of the simplest workflows and it’s generally out of the way.
No machine is faster and more stable. There are open source implementations too.
So, it’s the worst for you and still the best for others, right?
Arch is the worst because… And the best because…
Same with every other.
In fact I’d argue that every single distro is the best for at least one person.
Really? I guess everyone was 15 at some point and hadn’t heard that distro wars are useless 🤣
There is no best. Period.
The reason of the confusion is clear.
The US propaganda has always equated Communism and totalitarianism.
It is bonkers that people in the USA cannot distinguish between an economic system and a political system.
Those two are distinct things. True communism is very democratic. But reading the Communist manifesto is heretic in the US and you are left with what your leaders tell you.
The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.
Right wing totalitarian dictators also use starvation of their own people as means of control.
What you are experiencing in the US is totalitarianism and while it hasn’t gotten to USSR levels, it is going on that direction.
Food for thought: study the political system in China, you’d be surprised how it’s actually more democratic than the current USA. Yes, the CCP controls the nominations. Now, tell me if there is true plurality in the US, two right wing parties selecting their candidates without any real popular input.
Really you’ve been bamboozled to think there is real democracy in the US.