"<i>[Thomas Pfeiffer] acknowledged that the GNOME project has gained some credibility after the controversial 3.0 release by "constantly providing great releases." But, he said, one of the things that makes it easy to produce those great releases is that the GNOME developers don't really have to care about anything outside of the GNOME world.</i>"<p>While I would agree that every new GNOME release since 3.0 has been better than the last, the "not caring about anything outside of GNOME" part is very concerning to me. I have the impression that GNOME 2.X was a "big tent" consisting of both core GNOME applications and GTK applications that used their infrastructure, but that GNOME 3 is all about "GNOME apps" which often are less stable or have less features than their predecessors.<p>As a non-enterprise user, it has been disappointing to see GNOME invest more resources into immature apps like GNOME Music, GNOME Photos, and GNOME Web instead of trying to ensure that standard Linux applications without GNOME branding (like Rhythmbox or Banshee, Shotwell, or Chromium) are first-class citizens in their desktop environment.
KDE for AR/VR anyone?<p><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/683379/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/683379/</a>