14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds is not one to shy away from saying what he thinks and he apparently doesn't have a too good opinion on what the terminal app looks like by default in the latest Fedora 21.
Fedora 21 was just released a few weeks ago and the general consensus is that it's a really good and reliable system. Linus Torvalds is using Fedora on his machine and he just updated his distro to the new version. As you can imagine, not everything was to his liking and he had a few observations to make.
There is nothing out of the ordinary and most of what he said was about some regular stuff, but he had a bone to pick with the terminal app and he had a lot of things to say about it. That's understandable because he actually spends a lot of time in front of the terminal, so it's very likely that he has a preferred look. Up until now, Fedora's design and his preferences matched up, but that’s not the case anymore.
Fedora's terminal is too dark
The terminal in the latest Fedora is from the GNOME 3.14 stack and it's a dark one. It might be OK if you're using the terminal only occasionally, but if you're doing most of your work through the terminal, then you're going to have a problem.
"The new gnome-terminal seems to default into a new 'Emo mode' (aka 'Dark Theme'). I don't know who thought it was a good idea to make a terminal application have its own depressed theme different from all other applications, but I'm guessing they spend their days cutting themselves and listening to death metal, and thinking they are 'cool'," wrote Linus on Google+.
It's easy to imagine that not everyone was happy with his comments, which seem a little bit too harsh, as usually. That is probably just because he's used to this kind of language and comparison from the kernel mailing list, but those are read mostly by devs who already know him. On Google+ the same kind of language will probably raise some eyebrows. And that's not saying anything about the fact that he's also probably right, most of the time.