Cassidy James   1d ago
What do you think is the venn diagram of people who say, “GNOME doesn’t listen to what users actually need? How many users change the default settings?” and “Any metrics or telemetry are inherently evil and must be avoided at all costs!”
Show threadCassidy James   1d ago

To be clear, I'm very cautious when it comes to metrics or telemetry. But at the same time, I understand that GNOME *literally cannot measure* how many people change any settings, which is always the argument for GNOME doing something differently.

“Everyone installs X extension!” Do they? How can we know that?

“Everyone changes Y setting!” Oh really? How can we validate that?

“Everyone wants GNOME to work like Z!” Oh, I would love to see the user research data!

Show threadPaul

@cassidy It's kind of like voting - don't vote, can't complain about pavements and street lighting.

Providing telemetry and accepting it will be aggregated with others is the easiest (and nicest) way you can help influence an open source project. Even if you do not like a future change, your telemetry has been part of the decision.

Which is a bit awesome really.

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