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GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
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I'm not complaining about gnome getting support, I'm complaining about kde being overlooked because gnome is the default desktop for Ubuntu. Kde is just a better tool for people wanting to just get things done. Gnome is pretty I'll give you that but ask anyone, they are very hard to work with and stubbornly refuse compromise when working with others on creating useful tools and standards.
Just think how many times they broke extensions without any regard for the individuals using it. Their efforts to make other projects wait for them to deside what's best for gnome like they are the only desktop that matters. The projects like portals usually say their going to implement the standard despite what gnome wants and kde often helps with the brunt of that work.
You literally are.
KDE isn't overlooked. KDE gets funding too. Valve and others have put so much into KDE. KDE has the most hardware partnerships. KDE has more contributors.
In your opinion...
I do all my work on Gnome because it's got an amazing and highly productive workflow, minimal distractions, and it's extremely stable.
I like Plasma, I like the options it has, I have it on one of my laptops, but it's not what I'd use for work. The last thing I need is for kwin to crash and take all the programs I had open with it, losing hours of work. Yes, I'm aware this should be fixed in Plasma 6, but as of right now it's a massive showstopper.
Gnome has championed a lot of open standards, and worked with others. You're just repeating a Reddit meme. They've done so much flatpak, portals, open-desktop stuff in collaboration with KDE and others.
You're showing a complete lack of understanding about what extensions are.
Extensions are impossible not to break from time to time. Extensions don't use some unchanging API to work - they're modifications on the DE itself. That's why they're so powerful.
There's no way around DE mods sometimes becoming borked when the DE gets a big update.
Why are you acting like Gnome is against portals lmao, they've been massively pushing portals and open desktop standards, even going as far as refusing to implement features unless there's a cross-desktop standard way of handling it (e.g. accent colours, which they are only now putting in place now that they and KDE have hammered out a sensible standard for it. Or a better system tray, which they've been trying to spearhead an open, cross-desktop solution for for years now, although little progress has been made by everyone). Of the DEs, Gnome has pushed for things like portals and flatpaks the most lol
We get it. In your mind, Gnome = bad and evil and nasty, KDE = good quirky and kool.