8Bit | 
| 🍶🦊I cannot tell you how much I love that the process of
"my Linux distro suddenly booted into Gnome because I didn't realize a package I installed yesterday had all of Gnome as a dependency"
is referred to at
"getting gnomed"
Cysio 
@memoriesin8bit why is it mostly mint users getting gnomed?
@me no idea. But if I had to guess it's a popular newcomer distro
@memoriesin8bit I wonder if there's something about their packaging too
@me I do wonder about this, too because there's something I don't understand in between "I accidentally installed Gnome" and "Gnome became my default desktop". I have honestly never seen this anywhere before. Did LightDM (which seems to be their default DM) switch the session? Did GDM get enabled automatically? Either seems fishy to me. I can only assume installing GDM automatically enables it on Mint.
Ur Ya'ar@me
I'd suggest that it has to dobwith the fact that Mint is pased on Ubuntu's repos, which probably use a lot of gnome dependencies, ad Ubuntu itself is using (a varint of) gnome in its main flavour
Daburu Dar@memoriesin8bit @me This would be my guess. Mint is a lot of recent Linux converts' first distro.