Gonna have to raise the age old question about this project, because myself and a lot of other developers are only seeing the one angle.

The question is: why?

What is this project solving that System76 is willing to pay multiple developers for? It’s almost pound-for-pound a recreation of GNOME, right down to the menu system.

Rust is not a features it’s a language. It also doesn’t solve any issues with Gnome that I’m aware of.

The biggest issue in the Gnome world I’m aware of is the lack of parity with Windows with regards to display capabilities, and possibly the plugin system causing issues.

So I’m still wondering…why??? What’s the best feature anyone can point out here? It’s not resources, in fact, this Alpha performs pretty poorly on its own vs Gnome. What’s the killer feature I’m missing?