I thought this was a hardcore DnD post at first.
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It still can be if we put in the work
There is a heck of a lot of opinion in this article. GNOME itself and the direction they've taken has been a source of endless debate.
I remember the time they took out the transparency options in GNOME Terminal for the same reasons used in this article. One person's "bloat" is another persons much loved feature.
I mean the ideal solution here is include all of those features by default and then allow users to turn them off/remove them as they please
Personally I think pretty much everything included in gnome is pretty essential to a standard desktop experience, if you start chopping bits off and don't have anything to replace them with you end up with a nonfunctional system as far as the average user is concerned
dconf can also be configured with text files (with a format similar to ‘.ini’ files), although enabling this support isn’t trivial, and it’s not the most well documented feature.
I also used to run a ”lobotomized” Gnome, but TBH I found it easier in the long run to start from a minimal base.
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