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GNOME June 2024: C'mon you can do better
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I think that a lot of the recent GNOME design choices are merely because they're trying to improve usability on mobile devices. It also just so happens that Apple is trying to make the macOS desktop closer to iOS to encourage people to move from Windows. They have similar goals, which leads to similar design choices. And all design is derivative, anyway. Who cares.
You aren't wrong, but that has nothing to do with he issue at hand. They should copy each other if a solution is good, and that's the issue here, GNOME forgot to copy a good UX practice that Apple actually took the time to implement.