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Re: Versionflation

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From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Versionflation
Date	Thu, 5 Feb 2026 10:09:12 -0800
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 10:43:53 -0700
Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> wrote:

> > As with GNOME 3, they made all kinds of bizarre alterations to the
> > desktop experience as concessions to what they imagined mobile users
> > would want, but what mobile users *actually* wanted was something
> > like iOS which was designed from the outset to match the
> > capabilities of the platform. As a result, they ended up with a
> > freakish Fiji mermaid of a GUI that made *nobody* happy. And, like
> > GNOME Team, they responded to popular outcry by insisting that
> > Actually This Makes Total Sense And You Just Don't Get It...only to
> > walk back their most egregious idiocies a few years later with the
> > release of Win10, tee hee hee. 
> 
> That's why Mate forked as of Gnome 2.

The only thing surprising about that was that it didn't happen sooner.

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