joojmachine , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

My comment did sound way more aggressive than I intended, and I apologize for that, but getting this defensive as an answer when the question asked for an opinion definitely isn't any less pathetic. I have a lot of respect on the work of the Pop team, and Pop was the first distro I have used, but none of your points are... good?

• Gradience fills the need for theming in an individual level for those that want it without breaking the look and feel of apps without the developers' intent at a distribution level;
• Forge replicates most of Pop's tiling capabilities, picking up the great work your team did over the years without intending to drop it for your own thing;
• Performance is something that isn't necessarily lacking in other DEs and stable is a bold statement for a product still in alpha. Hopefully it really is whenever it gets a stable release though, I'm not rooting against your work;
• Also, it isn't hard to say your app store is the fastest when it doesn't have the years of crust other ones gathered from all the work put into it. I would get worried if it wasn't.