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With the introduction of Gnome Shell in 2011, the Gnome developers decided desktop icons were tacky and got rid of them. There are some extensions to bring them back, but the Gnome developers are just and righteous in their arbitrary design tyranny.
The dictatorship of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) has given us the most beautiful desktop environment but also the most controversial.
I use Arch BTW
Image from the Plasma 6 Wallpaper Competition - yes, on my Gnome Desktop!
It seems like my success has led to some controversy
~ GNOME
that wallpaper is lovely
Wait, are they the ones behind "~/Desktop shouldn't even exist since you already have ~/Documents?"