@swarfendor437 you properly excited about this news 
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Not just him, but Aravisian as well. I'd dislike it, but it's GNOME. No matter what they do I'll dislike it.
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I'm sure he started immediately a Party and can't wait to use it!
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It is interesting that I escaped Microsoft only to end up right back in the thick of the Microsoft way of doing things.
I won't deny that I sometimes wonder about just going back to Windows. It would make things easier in many ways. It's dominance of the market means no struggling to get things to work, no looking for things that can work on GnuLinux...
Why bother?
The freedom, the decentralization, the power to choose is being eroded away.
I find it Odd...
The ZorinGroup started Zorin OS as a means of easing the transition.
Seventeen years later, the ZorinGroup fully endorses the transition back to Microsoft.
All in on Gnome, the most centralized and locked-down environment in the FOSS world. Every deviation discarded. Constant feature removal. The user experience homogenized. Push Wayland before it’s ready, break workflows, remove options. Pull a Canonical-style stunt by turning the software store into a Flatpak silo.
We are being corralled and shepherded right back into the same controls as Microsoft to the thunderous applause of the ZorinGroup.
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I think the problem for Team Zorin is that they started at a very young age, forking Ubuntu which used/uses Gnome DE. I don't think that Team Zorin will be pleased about the way things are going, that said I was surprised that they have got on the snap and flatpak wagon, all for the sake or being current. I'd rather be a raisin (yes I know the difference between currant and current!). Aside from this Red Hat is railroading (as is freedesktop) xorg to extinction and preventing potential solutions that the guy behind XLibre has posted, now deleted by Red Hat employee who is a moderator. For me I might have to go to GhostBSD or DragonflyBSD - the latter does not have systemd or pulse audio present. Failing that an upgrade to my aged Amiga 1500 with a zz9000 board!
This is like watching the Penguin and the Riddler get into a fist fight. You don't know who to root for.
And it can be misleading to go by appearances alone. The fixes submitted by Weigelt were flawed. Were they deleted out of retaliation? Or due to them having unacceptable risk as flawed?
Both sides in this fight are wrong.
Will Xlibre be the saving grace of X11? I have serious doubts. Weitgelt cannot properly maintain Xlibre all alone and have it equal to X11.
It suggests a downward trajectory - the beginning of the end, Xlibre being a last ditch failing effort to preserve something dying.
While that is a gloomy, it does not need to be. If others join the project, that could improve its chances a great deal but... they would have to be able to work well with Weigelt which is as difficult as it would be to work with Seivers or Poettering.
The lack of emotional maturity and emotional intelligence in the crowd inhibits the chances of an actual reliably working end product. It spawned from conflict and so likely will remain in conflict.
We cannot lay all the blame at Someones Feet. It is slathered across many. There are no hero's. There are no good guys.
It's just a group of bad guys enjoying some internecine squabbling while the majority of us sit on the side lines watching in horror.
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Penguin. Danny de Vito's Penguin was pretty great; I've never seen a Riddler worth rooting for. <_<
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I spent... an absurd amount of time thinking about how to word that. Because, there are clear names I could have used. But, to avoid invoking Godwins law and to keep my post "cleanly apolitical" I mulled over choosing villain names that no one... would like. Something from fiction that everyone could agree was just the bad guy...
I failed.
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Well the saving grace of this forum is that we can mention this debacle, on reddit it has been shutdown.
Young people lol ... Frank Gorshin ... Expand your horizons 
I'm 45 and watched quite a bit of the old Batman TV series in which he played the Riddler in re-runs as a child, thanks. He was most definitely included in my original assessment.
I would kill to be that young again 
I watched it in 1966 