GNOME devs are basically living in a bubble of their own. Recently they had announced that they want to deprecate X11 despite Wayland not being anywhere ready to use. Now you may wonder, what’s not ready on Wayland? The biggest blockade at the moment is Wine and gaming, which whether you like it or not is a huge part of computer usability but because games are in most scenarios not FOSS, that is not a concern for the FSF fanatics that run GNOME. Basically, if you play video games on their DE, it’s your problem, not theirs. Obviously whatever they do will be reverted by the distros so you won’t be affected by it until the next GNOME release. But why should every distro maintain a GNOME fork to keep it usable
GNOME devs are basically living in a bubble of their own. Recently they had announced that they want to deprecate X11 despite Wayland not being anywhere ready to use. Now you may wonder, what’s not ready on Wayland? The biggest blockade at the moment is Wine and gaming, which whether you like it or not is a huge part of computer usability but because games are in most scenarios not FOSS, that is not a concern for the FSF fanatics that run GNOME. Basically, if you play video games on their DE, it’s your problem, not theirs. Obviously whatever they do will be reverted by the distros so you won’t be affected by it until the next GNOME release. But why should every distro maintain a GNOME fork to keep it usable