Now, I like Gnome. It can look good.. However, the interface is difficult: I generally install Cinnamon, which is a fork of the above (though I’m travelling with a Chromebook at present — it is amazing what can be done via a web browser).

But the core issue of Gnome is making as functional a desktop for Linux as possible. As I said, I prefer it — particularly to KDE: it is about as useful as MacOS, and far better than Windows 8.0. A lot of the ideas in Windows 10 were in Gonme

But they let a SJW run it, and she is moving the goal to involvement of women, not making a good product, and the finances as bad. From Vox Day.

It doesn’t sound that bad, until you look at the numbers and realize that the Women’s Outreach Program, which didn’t exist in 2010, rapidly grew to soak up 45.8 percent of the foundation’s entire budget by 2013.

Karen Sandler was, for three years, the foundation’s executive director. She made Women’s Outreach the open source software’s top priority, and quickly turned what had been a financially healthy tech foundation into one that was $80,000 in the hole. In 2013, the most recently reported year, Gnome spent $275,000 of its $600,00 budget (and $512,000 revenue) on Women’s Outreach.

In her outgoing statement as Gnome’s Executive Director, Ms Sandler described the Outreach Program for Women as an “ongoing success”. She was also elected to Gnome’s Board of Directors.

Gnoame should be about the care and feeding of the graphics geeks who make it work. The political issues so dear to the heart of Ms Sandler should be something she does in her own time and with her own money.

Because their products and technologies have competition, and if they don’t care for people who do this as a hobby — then the project will die. The fate of Mozilla awaits: I do use some Mozilla products, but I can easily use alternatives.

The effort is a success because the Foundation was able to hire women. Since no actual coders are now involved in the management of the foundation, there’s lots of made up work for women of questionable ability, and she and a few of her SJW friends get to suck at that teat for years to come.

I’ve been using Linux Mint with the MATE desktop at home and everything just works. It’s pretty enough, but not aggressively modern. Basically it looks more or less like Windows 7.
At work, on the other hand, I’ve got about 1600 RedHat servers, but none of them run a desktop, so Gnome literally means nothing to us.

IF you are senior, consider continually your goals. Are your expenses and hires meeting the mission? Or are the peripheral things taking over? This deviation in the budget line matters. And a parasite saying greater infection is a success is foolish, when the host is at risk.