TIL about this wonderful post written about GNOME when they turned 25
GNOME started in Aug 15 1997
Whether you use GNOME actively or you use components of it {often without knowing it } the Open Source GUI landscape would look very different without the massive contribution of GNOME.
For me GNOME is very valuable.
I use critical components of GNOME in the different desktop environments I work with.
The Gnome components give my desktop environments consistency across the different GUI platforms I use.
Without those components my DEs would look and function dull, since the programmers of those environments would have to invent the wheel themselves time and time again
Thank you GNOME programmers
Keep on hacking...
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