No, it’s not. You can write apps for Gnome in a bunch of different programming languages.
I think it’s the other way round, when the amount of interesting SW is rising,the probability of good HW will be higher. And yes, as we can see, the SW can be developed independent of HW.
I agree with you, I just wanted to share this for the sake of completion.
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