Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability — Part 1

Why are you using it if you fundamentally disagree with the design?

I don't use it. The UX is almost completely wrong.

benevolent dictator like Linus, Guido, Rasmus, DHH telling the devs to stop fucking around with stupid shit and focus instead.

Your view of how open source works is not accurate. Those people are all maintainers of their respective projects. They don't tell anyone to "focus" they can't even tell anyone what to do and at this point they are not the ones hiring the majority of developers who work on those projects. As maintainers, their role is primarily to review submissions of code

... And reject them if they don't make sense. Which nobody at gnome seems to do.

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