>> With all those choices given to them, these people are so utterly selfish and lacking in common decency, they can't see how appropriate and important it is that those developing the software also have the freedom to choose what direction they take the fruits of their labor.
As I stated elsewhere in this thread: Sometimes you don't get to choose.
If GNOME is the only desktop environment on your employer's enterprise Linux distro and you do not have root or other window manager choices due to corporate security policies then the GNOME devs' vision is what you get. Yes, it sucks to not have more options, but it is what it is.
>> It reminds me of children having tantrums when mom doesn't cook the free meal they want, instead cooking what mom and dad like. That's what entitled foss users resemble, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them actually are children so what should we expect.
Unsurprisingly, people do not like to be force-fed food they do not like:
Forks are a healthy part of FOSS, that's exactly what's supposed to happen.
If your employer sucks and limits what software you can run, don't put that on FOSS developers' backs. Find a better employer if you can't change their policy and it's that important to you.
As I stated elsewhere in this thread: Sometimes you don't get to choose.
If GNOME is the only desktop environment on your employer's enterprise Linux distro and you do not have root or other window manager choices due to corporate security policies then the GNOME devs' vision is what you get. Yes, it sucks to not have more options, but it is what it is.
>> It reminds me of children having tantrums when mom doesn't cook the free meal they want, instead cooking what mom and dad like. That's what entitled foss users resemble, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them actually are children so what should we expect.
Unsurprisingly, people do not like to be force-fed food they do not like:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4...
https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design...
https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Mo...
https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...
It's condescending and offensive to treat others as children just because they disagree with a designer's "grand vision".
That is the main reason why so many GNOME forks sprang up:
MATE: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162
Cinnamon: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910
Unity: https://web.archive.org/web/20101129161856/http://www.pcworl...
People want tools that can help them get their work done and do not get in the way.