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Lobotomizing GNOME
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I mean the ideal solution here is include all of those features by default and then allow users to turn them off/remove them as they please
Personally I think pretty much everything included in gnome is pretty essential to a standard desktop experience, if you start chopping bits off and don't have anything to replace them with you end up with a nonfunctional system as far as the average user is concerned