Gnome is good for people who like their philosohy and design and opt for less customisation. That’s enough.
Pretending that Gnome is good because you can customise it with just these few tools (that will totally not break with every upgrade) however is stupid and in line with “look Windows is totally okay after you spend 12 hours with tweaking the install with these 3rd party tools”.
While I agree that it’s a lot more brittle than it has any right to be, it hasn’t been that bad in my experience. For example, it only took me 1-2 days after its official release to upgrade to Fedora 44 (and with it, GNOME 50). Out of the 5/6 extensions I had installed, only 1 has broken on me. Arguably, that is one too many. But as GNOME offers a very stable and polished experience otherwise, I suppose this is pretty acceptable.
Gnome is good for people who like their philosohy and design and opt for less customisation. That’s enough.
Pretending that Gnome is good because you can customise it with just these few tools (that will totally not break with every upgrade) however is stupid and in line with “look Windows is totally okay after you spend 12 hours with tweaking the install with these 3rd party tools”.
While I agree that it’s a lot more brittle than it has any right to be, it hasn’t been that bad in my experience. For example, it only took me 1-2 days after its official release to upgrade to Fedora 44 (and with it, GNOME 50). Out of the 5/6 extensions I had installed, only 1 has broken on me. Arguably, that is one too many. But as GNOME offers a very stable and polished experience otherwise, I suppose this is pretty acceptable.