I also love that GNOME tries to be its own thing, and not another Windows clone to attract Windows users. This prevents deceiving them into thinking “hey it looks just like Windows but its free, so it must work the same!” then bricking their systems. Having a completely different “Linux OS”/branding will help make the distinction that Linux is not Windows, the same way Windows users don’t expect MacOS to work like Windows, since they look and behave so differently
I also love that GNOME tries to be its own thing, and not another Windows clone to attract Windows users. This prevents deceiving them into thinking “hey it looks just like Windows but its free, so it must work the same!” then bricking their systems. Having a completely different “Linux OS”/branding will help make the distinction that Linux is not Windows, the same way Windows users don’t expect MacOS to work like Windows, since they look and behave so differently