Bradley Kuhn: Confessions of a command line geek: why I don't use GNOME but everyone else should
Channel: GUADEC
Date: 2016-08-12

https://media.ccc.de/v/109-confessions_of_a_command_line_geek_why_i_dont_use_gnome_but_everyone_else_should

Despite what tablet- and phone-loving pundits say, the laptop is here to stay. When a user wants to watch a movie on a train, they reach for the tablet first. But if they want to do actual, real work, they still prefer the laptop.

Meanwhile, software freedom should always be for everyone, not just technical users and software developers. The GNOME project was one of the first in this history of Free Software to realize this, and seek to create a free software desktop that truly allowed everyone to enjoy the software freedom that those of us had already happily found with Bash and Emacs (or vi :) years before.

This keynote will discuss why GNOME remains best poised to deliver software freedom to everyone, how GNOME continues to be the best welcome-mat for those who want software freedom, and why GNOME remains absolutely essential to the advancement of software freedom for decades to come.

Bradley Kuhn