Personally, I have mixed feelings. I often appreciated how Pop!_OS stayed close to stock GNOME, and I would have loved to see them backport GNOME 40 or something like that.
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As much as I love Gnome and appreciate the minimalistic interface it offers, hiding the dash behind a click has always seemed like a bad idea to me. I use a desktop with a traditional mouse so maybe I am not the target audience.
Foe me it works great, however, I fully agree and in my opinion the dash should have configuration options for when it is visible and where it is placed.
How many other Gnome forks will we see?
Yeah, from the KDE perspective, it feels ridiculous. But I guess, that's the tradeoff for not supporting as many settings.
It's not clear to me whether this is a fork or just a set of pre-configured extensions.
I think they configured it just enough to give it a name and made it look like a fork.
Cool, will get to play with it on the wifes computer :)
I really like the pop os tiling extension for gnome and hope they will continue to develop that.
I do like the launcher in pop OS as well, I think having a small overlay window pop up is less jarring than having the whole screen change like in the GNOME applications/over view. But the GNOME applications view does more than just launch applications, you can search directly for settings, files and new packages. I really just want the GNOME applications view but in some kind of launcher program (something like kde connect).
Fwiw for people saying it's just gnome with a few extensions, the same could have been said for elementaryOS and pantheon DE when it came out, and look where they are now. They also might be doing it so that they have more control over what they're offering with their products instead of being expected to follow gnome.
No one serious about Linux cares about pantheon
I don't really agree but even if that's the case it's definitely more than just gnome with a few plugins now. I imagine cosmic will be the same down the line.