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I remember a lot of KDE hate up until Gnome 3, which was controversial, to say the least. It mirrored old-school Mac hate, with a lot of invalid arguments parroted by people who never took time to learn it (or more to the point, to unlearn what they came from).
I've swapped between Gnome and KDE a bunch of times, and it hasn't really made a difference to me in many years. There was a time when running apps built for one on the other was a painful experience either way. Nowadays my DE choice doesn't really influence my application choices.
This is a dumb take too, it's important to criticize and scrutinize anything and everything down to the smallest detail to understand what works and what doesn't, how and why that is the case in order to make better decisions for the future. You have to think critically, especially about software even when it's a matter of preference.
What? No I was saying that NOT criticizing GNOME just because of the old thought-terminating cliché of "don't use it then" is silly because it's important to critique everything and no one is just saying it's "garbage" apart from people in your head
It's because everyone that uses Linux will stumble across gnome at least once because it's in Ubuntu which is the first and only distro a lot of people use, so you have to go out of your way to use something else like KDE.
Why do people complain about anything?
Because why not? I don't like Gnome but I complain about it because I can and I don't like it.
I also complain about IOS, macOS, And a lot of other shit that doesn't matter. I just like to voice my opinion like everyone else. There is no need to listen.
Ubuntu's version of Gnome is heavily modified to look and feel like their old Unity DE though. Vanilla Gnome like in Fedora or Arch is a vastly different experience.
Arch?
Last time I installed arch it didn't have any DE (or anything really) by default.
Correct. But if you install gnome, it comes with default configs
That's true with KDE as well.
Who said it wasn't
They implied that gnome was special in some way.
No they didn't.