It is included because it is innovative, newby friendly (Windows and Mac are both more complex), It has efficient keyboard navigation by default. And it has pleasant, modern UI by default.
It also has nothing to make life useful. The innovation is removing everything and wasting space. You need to add in extensions for the most basic of tasks.
Gnome is tolerable on a laptop, but on a desktop it’s just awful.
I’ll make a deal:
You stop including Gnome as the default DE on mainstream, newbie-friendly distros, and I’ll stop talking shit about it.
It is included because it is innovative, newby friendly (Windows and Mac are both more complex), It has efficient keyboard navigation by default. And it has pleasant, modern UI by default.
It also has nothing to make life useful. The innovation is removing everything and wasting space. You need to add in extensions for the most basic of tasks.
Gnome is tolerable on a laptop, but on a desktop it’s just awful.