i guess it would make sense because the main philosophy behind cinnamon is to bring back old gnome2 and despise new gnome. it’s almost like they’re trying to make it better (i believe both cinnamon and gnome are awesome!!) and eventually make cinnamon the default de someday, has there been any sort of rivalry between the devs of both desktop environments?? like, i know it’s not possible but what if a gnome update wouldn’t let you install cinnamon and vice versa??
For the most part, large open source projects are worked on by adults not children.
This is the right response to the OP’s bizarre “question”, of course, but … yeah … the ‘for the most part’ qualifier is key here.
we are talking Gnome devs here after all …
No rivalry, both projects serve a different crowd with different use cases and preferences. Some people like both, some people like neither, that’s the beauty of Linux and FOSS, there’s something for everyone.
Why does loving something automatically imply hating something else?
It’s about choice. You can use Cinnamon today and switch to Gnome, KDE, XFCE or whatever desktop you feel like using tomorrow and your apps will still work.
It’s all good software, made available to you for free. Drop the hate.
Not as far as I’m aware. The Linux community is largely cooperative, the idea is that everyone can choose the DE they like best. I don’t remember seeing anything about Cinnamon trying to bring back an older GNOME version - you might be thinking of MATE (though I’m not aware of ANY friction there either) considering MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.
Cinnamon didn’t necessarily want to go back (otherwise they would have built MATE), but it was created out of dissatisfaction with GNOME 3 dropping the traditional desktop metaphor.
both are a fork of guhnome i think so!!
Does a Chinese chef get extremely angry at an Italian chef for making pasta?
Yes.
The other way around 100%
Why would they? That’s what makes Linux good. Infinite choices.
