Can’t stress enough how much I hate this type of article. Endless nitpicking without realizing that this isn’t some big budget project by a bunch of full time paid staff. It’s largely a volunteer project because Linux desktop environments aren’t part of most companies’ money making in the way server software and embedded devices are.
Most of the complaints are obtuse or taking something that KDE has and complaining that GNOME doesn’t have it. None of this stuff helps anyone. At the very least it could be framed as a proposal for changes in the GNOME issue tracker or forum. But these polemics against GNOME are a dime a dozen.
Especially annoying was the complaint about GNOME being too “mobile-first” which is hilarious because GNOME IS USED ON MOBILE DEVICES. You can load postmarketOS on a hundred different devices with GNOME and use GNOME apps and they just work. It’s so stupid to be against writing software for mobile devices in 2025. Desktop operating systems are less relevant than they’ve ever been. How many “native” apps does KDE have compared to GNOME? For desktop and mobile? Flathub has dozens or hundreds of simple applications that work on mobile devices and desktops thanks to GTK4 and libadwaita. And developers don’t have to write any special code to make them work on desktops, phones, tablets, 2-in-1s, etcetera. The UI elements just adapt automatically. And they almost automatically get new features implemented in GTK and libadwaita.
Can’t stress enough how much I hate this type of article. Endless nitpicking without realizing that this isn’t some big budget project by a bunch of full time paid staff. It’s largely a volunteer project because Linux desktop environments aren’t part of most companies’ money making in the way server software and embedded devices are.
Most of the complaints are obtuse or taking something that KDE has and complaining that GNOME doesn’t have it. None of this stuff helps anyone. At the very least it could be framed as a proposal for changes in the GNOME issue tracker or forum. But these polemics against GNOME are a dime a dozen.
Especially annoying was the complaint about GNOME being too “mobile-first” which is hilarious because GNOME IS USED ON MOBILE DEVICES. You can load postmarketOS on a hundred different devices with GNOME and use GNOME apps and they just work. It’s so stupid to be against writing software for mobile devices in 2025. Desktop operating systems are less relevant than they’ve ever been. How many “native” apps does KDE have compared to GNOME? For desktop and mobile? Flathub has dozens or hundreds of simple applications that work on mobile devices and desktops thanks to GTK4 and libadwaita. And developers don’t have to write any special code to make them work on desktops, phones, tablets, 2-in-1s, etcetera. The UI elements just adapt automatically. And they almost automatically get new features implemented in GTK and libadwaita.
You shouldn’t use that word.
ok I edited it
Thanks.