Meme, from top to bottom: (Wayland appears) This is the death of the Linux desktop! (SystemD appears) This is the death of the Linux desktop! (Gnome makes massive changes) This is the death of the Linux desktop!
Linux desktop in 2025, having died all the time: over 4.5% marketshare (Michael Jackson as zombie in the background).
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[–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was somewhat of a special situation back when Gnome 3 dropped. Ubuntu & flavours of it was still regarded as the go-to distro by many and KDE still had a somewhat damaged reputation due to KDE 3 (even though 4 was already available, however that also had some issues). Many environments we know today didn't exist yet, so lots of people were rather distraught when Gnome broke with a lot of concepts and dropped what arguably was a horrendous DE.

Many of our current DEs are Gnome 2 or 3 forks (MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, and back then also Unity), made exactly because of this whole debacle.

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