What keeps you from using gtkd or dlangui

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 21:35:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 21:05:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> This was one of the more extreme cases though:
>>
>> - GNOME 3 was very different from GNOME 2. It had no appeal to 
>> their existing users.
>> - GNOME users were told that GNOME 2 was dead so they had to 
>> "upgrade".
>> - There was little advance warning that it would be so 
>> different.
>>
>> These factors combined to make the vast majority of GNOME 
>> users very upset and very vocal. I'm a happy MATE user today 
>> but I had to switch to KDE for a while until that became a 
>> realistic option.
>
> Notable portion - yes. Vast majority - not even close. Stats 
> tell that clearly.

I've not seen any stats that would inform us on that. For years, 
GNOME was the dominant desktop, as in 2:1 versus KDE. According 
to the link you posted above, GNOME usage is even with KDE and 
barely even ahead of XFCE. I won't put much weight on that though 
because Arch is not representative.

Some other things to keep in mind: GNOME 3 brought in a lot of 
new users that didn't like GNOME 2 (I guess most current users 
didn't use GNOME 2 and wouldn't consider doing so), some existing 
users hated it but continued to use it anyway, and some hated it 
initially but later used it once it as it became usable. I'd be 
shocked if more than 30% of GNOME 2 users were happy with GNOME 3 
in the first six months after it was released.