This link:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=122528
and this link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... page2.html
got me curious about - particularly - article 4 of the "Debian Social Contract".
And reading article 4:
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[i]4. Our priorities are our users and free software
We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities.[etc][/i]
Take, for example Gnome 3 (no, I will not start whining about Gnome 3). It is chosen as the main DE. I loved Gnome 2, because it was very user-friendly and worked flawlessly (and because KDE, with its bottom-left menu, reminded me of that other, awful OS from Redmond). Gnome 3, in comparison, I find quite user-unfriendly to work with.
(As a new Gnome 3 user, there are many decisions that were taken to make Gnome 3 work and look the way it does, which I just don't understand).
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Why did the Debian Developers think that Gnome 3 is the "best" (my quotation marks) DE for the “needs of their users and the free software community”?
How did the Debian Developers reach the conclusion that Gnome 3 is the "best" (again: my quotation marks) DE to serve the "needs of their users and the free software community"? (When Gnome 3 clearly is not the "best" DE for my needs and that of so many other Linux users.)
Or was Gnome 3 chosen, because... well... there aren't many other DE's that are as "good" as Gnome 3 (like, for example, KDE)?
On my one-month-old "jessie" install, I mainly use LXDE instead of Gnome 3, because of reasons that I will not name here because it is not the right place.
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Who is meant by “users and the free software community”? Am I, as a “plain vanilla” Debian/Linux user, meant, or are rather Linux software writers meant?
Can someone with more knowledge shed some light on this?