Desktop Linux is definitely still maturing...<p>I&#x27;m not up on the latest in Gnome-land and don&#x27;t know the background on the issue you linked, but it looks like the benefit is that they get to stop maintaining a bunch of code for a UI feature they&#x27;ve decided isn&#x27;t actually a good idea. That will make it easier for them to continue to build reliable software, as there will be less legacy code to consider when writing future code.<p>The UI churn you talk about may be because the &quot;window manager&quot; concept is probably fundamentally flawed. Creating a coherent and sensible UI when you have to target a whole suite of different window managers which may use entirely different UI paradigms is... probably a nigh-unsolvable problem which might not even be worth working on.