(If you know where I stole this from, I love you.)
I don’t love GNOME, but if you use it…whatever. Linux is all about choice and lack of lock-in.
If you want to compile CDE from the 1990s and use it as your DE…you do you honey boo boo.
[EDIT]
JFC apparently CDE is still around and had a stable release 2 months ago. Holy fucking case-in-point right there.
GNOME feels great to use based on the 10 seconds I used it for.
But I don’t like GNOME for many reasons.
Could you please not excite cancel culture against a great DE?
I’ll make a deal:
You stop including Gnome as the default DE on mainstream, newbie-friendly distros, and I’ll stop talking shit about it.
It is included because it is innovative, newby friendly (Windows and Mac are both more complex), It has efficient keyboard navigation by default. And it has pleasant, modern UI by default.