Gnome is sleek but definitely not KISS, and the fact that plugins break after every update should be proof enough. Bash scripts will work for years or decades without any modification; that’s the Unix philosophy. Yet write one .js extension for gnome and it will be obsolete by next year, even though devs point to the extension system to excuse themselves from implementing the most basic of features (at least they did ten years ago when I got fed up with their bullshit). And they don’t implement the most basic features because their philosophy is not Unix’s, but MacOS’s (specifically in all the ways that MacOS is not Unix).
People seem to find redeeming qualities to Gnome, and more power to them I guess. But “it is philosophically Unix” is just straight-up an incorrect statement.
Gnome is sleek but definitely not KISS, and the fact that plugins break after every update should be proof enough. Bash scripts will work for years or decades without any modification; that’s the Unix philosophy. Yet write one .js extension for gnome and it will be obsolete by next year, even though devs point to the extension system to excuse themselves from implementing the most basic of features (at least they did ten years ago when I got fed up with their bullshit). And they don’t implement the most basic features because their philosophy is not Unix’s, but MacOS’s (specifically in all the ways that MacOS is not Unix).
People seem to find redeeming qualities to Gnome, and more power to them I guess. But “it is philosophically Unix” is just straight-up an incorrect statement.