Well, yes. I do really hate opinionated software (e.g. Apple, or GNOME). I do tend to find the weird niches that work for me. I'm currently using KDE and I've totally worked it over. Which is great because I can be much more productive if I'm not constantly fighting against the UI. But yeah such tools with millions of niche features are great for me.
The software packages I really value the most are the ones where a situation causes something really weird I need to do, and I read in the documentation to try to find some workaround, and then I discover that it already has exactly that feature that I need hidden in there somewhere. It's like the developer read my mind :) There's been very few packages that I truly cherished (and very few in this day and age, software in the early PC days was often more powerful IMO).
One of them was SP (SK Packet Radio), where this happened several times. That was truly amazing software, there was so much it could do and it all worked on an 8088 together with a TSR-based softmodem (connected to a radio not a phone line). Wow. Even the insanest stuff that popped into my head I could make happen with just some settings.
That's a really decent discussion though, from both sides. The option was seriously considered.
It's a world of difference to Gnome devs that will just shut down everything.
PS I do think dolphin is the weakest link in the KDE experience though. But they have made some really good improvements with KDE 6. Like the typable crumb trail.
It's a bit of a contrast though with macOS where the finder is one of the least opinionated parts of the OS (and thus for me one of the best). I think that's more of a historical thing though, Apple's vision seems to be more centered around moving file management into the ___domain of different apps like on iOS. Another thing i don't like but I think ios has loosened that somewhat as they had to contend that it was necessary to make the iPad more of a productivity device (it still really isn't one though)
The software packages I really value the most are the ones where a situation causes something really weird I need to do, and I read in the documentation to try to find some workaround, and then I discover that it already has exactly that feature that I need hidden in there somewhere. It's like the developer read my mind :) There's been very few packages that I truly cherished (and very few in this day and age, software in the early PC days was often more powerful IMO).
One of them was SP (SK Packet Radio), where this happened several times. That was truly amazing software, there was so much it could do and it all worked on an 8088 together with a TSR-based softmodem (connected to a radio not a phone line). Wow. Even the insanest stuff that popped into my head I could make happen with just some settings.