

Was new to the city, had a bunch of liberal friends who lived in Harlem that supported him and waxed poetic about his potential. The ex-cop thing was seen as a boon, at that point.
Things started going down hill real fast in my eyes when the whole Turkish airlines scandal broke.
In retrospect I should have listened to my other liberal friends who warned me against him. There’s a lot of regret, on my part.
GNOME is a great desktop environment. Ignore the people here who are whining; there’s always a bunch in any DE-related Linux post, regardless of the DE being discussed.
But, just to add to the discussion, KDE is the only real alternative as far as feature parity is concerned (that isn’t just a fork).