The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
This investment will fund the following projects until the end of 2024:
- Improve the current state of accessibility
- Design and prototype a new accessibility stack
- Encrypt user home directories individually
- Modernize secrets storage
- Increase the range and quality of hardware support
- Invest in Quality Assurance and Developer Experience
- Expand and broaden freedesktop APIs
- Consolidate and improve platform components
If people want to use Windows then they should just use Windows. If people don’t want to use GNOME, then they should use something else.
Linux and GNOME aren’t a Windows or MacOS clone, they have their own rich history of design decisions.
I get it, when I first tried to switch the Linux filesystem was alienating to me, it was part of why I switched back to Windows over and over again. But the thing is, here the problem lies with user: If I had kept a reflexive, closed-minded way of thinking, I would have never been able to switch to Linux at all. Only by allowing myself to take on different perspectives about design was I able to get comfortable with this software.