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    Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway (discuss.tchncs.de)
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    I’ve been teaching Linux to a lot of high-school age kids this year. I picked Fedora Workstation for us to experiment with. It of course, uses GNOME. Like I mentioned in the above post I talked to them for 5-10 minutes about GNOME design and how it’s supposed to be used. One thing that surprised me is how much the younger generation found GNOME intuitive as soon as they learned to use the Super key. Many have spent more time on iOS than they have Windows. So some of the common pain points for us older folks, like not having a task bar, preferring each “App” to be full a screen and switching between them felt very natural for the kids. Very iOS like.

    You can of course have your different opinion on if this is good or bad or if GNOME shouldn’t be the default on most distro.

    Perhaps GNOME is a good default for distro because it’s similar to the interfaces young people are growing up with.