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GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It's like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.
Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.
Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.
I don't completely hate MacOS, it's pretty nice IMO.
GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.
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Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It's unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I've ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.
I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it's default on many distros, people install "linux" and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.
Gnome also has a few nice things that I miss whenever I try kde or cosmic. It really depends on what you need from your DE.
I do not like cosmic. They remove random features i use a ton.
Like accessing a file address in the address bar. Why. Why can it not show the file path.
Also keyboard shortcuts rarely work. If I extract and archive, I have to mouse it all. No alt+e for extract here, nope.
Also pop shop on popos is horribly optimized.
I use it and like it. No strong opinion here, it just works well for me.
I was into it back when Gnome 3 came out... the problem is that I had to fill too many "holes" (for me, maybe not for everyone) in the functionality with extensions and those were quirky as fuck. You never knew what was going to stop working (or work differently) any day but without them, I could not function properly
And just to give you an idea of how tolerant I am with risk... my daily driver now is Garuda Linux with Hyprland instead of a desktop that I configured from scratch... my browser of choice is FireDragon which is a fork of Floorp which is a fork of Firefox
I am certain it is better now than it was back then... but once you are comfortable with an environment, it is a pretty tall order to switch around.
Well, I use it, I like it, and I can confidently say it's not for everyone
You gotta think the gnome way. Like, for example, I don't feel the absence of the minimize button because I adopted gnome's workspace-based flow
It doesn't get in my way, I don't even feel its existence most of the time. Gnome 3 sucked and definitely got in my way but beware that I am talking about gnome 4x here.
Context: I'm an i3 and plasma user depenending on my machine with one exception.
I find Gnome to be in the way 100% of the time, until I put the mist and konquer down and start using the touchscreen. Its a nice DE for touch oriented devices, but it really sucks to navigate with moist and keybread imho.
Edit: the one time I don't fix my spelling someone comes along and says something. I'm gonna make it worse 😈
Ah, yes, the classic …
noise and keyboard
moist and keyboard
morse and keyboard
Re: edit
Yes! Embrace the typo. Elevate it to art!
moist and keybread
What’s wrong with the MacOS UI? It works pretty well, and is pretty easy to pick up. Some of the biggest complaining I heard back in the day is that the close/min/max buttons were on the other side and someone who can’t handle that doesn’t have an opinion worth entertaining. Most of it was just a extreme refusal to learn out of spite which is more embarrassing for them than an argument.
I don't hate macOS, and I don't even know if I consider it worse than Windows, but here are a few things I dislike.
Look, despite being largely completely unremarkable in either any positive or negative ways I will concede that Finder does have that major issue in #2 but the rest really aren’t issues, I’m sorry.
I mean, I never really said it was a big deal, I made it very clear. Why are you being so defensive about it lol. Are you a UI designer at Apple or something?
Finder is ass, no feature to get filepath, no feature to open location in terminal, no way to go to parent folder (the button that looks like it does this actually is a "back" button that takes you to previous location).
Also you can't quit Finder for some reason. On my Debian VM I can quit Dolphin. Finder is probably embedded to show files on the desktop. (I've never understood having the desktop be a directory, seems like bloat to me.)
Overall the DE is a lot worse than Plasma:
It's also a walled garden that intentionally makes compiling apps for it hard for small devs (you need to be verified by apple to have your app not be flagged as "probably a virus")
The only good thing about MacOS is that it is a very stable OS that rarely needs fixing.
I'm installing Asahi Linux as soon as it supports DisplayPort over USB-C.
Arch user here who enjoys Gnome because I started my Linux journey over a decade ago with Ubuntu. Tell me which desktop environment I should be using. Which desktop environment will make me question why I’ve spent so much time with Gnome?
GNOME is a great desktop environment. Ignore the people here who are whining; there's always a bunch in any DE-related Linux post, regardless of the DE being discussed.
But, just to add to the discussion, KDE is the only real alternative as far as feature parity is concerned (that isn't just a fork).
They all have pros and cons. If you like how it works out of the box, you've already won.
I ran Gnome for years with a collection of plugins and hidden gsettings to make it windows95-esque. Bottom bar, left apps, small bars, multi-screen, stacked windows, full time and date in the tray.
And every gnome update, a plugin or two would break, and I'd go find someone else's plugin that did the same thing, but wouldn't break.
Finally, I tried KDE on a new install, and it was exactly how I wanted it out, out of the box.
It's been a long time now. For all I know, Gnome supports all that up front in config.
but if it's how you want it, that's all you need.
The issue is that GNOME is incredibly opinionated and makes it very difficult, if not impossible to configure some basic functionality that every other DE has options for. GNOME will work for you if you want a DE that works exactly the way stock GNOME works, but as soon as you want to change anything, you run into a brick wall. Nearly any other Linux DE can be configured to look and work similar to GNOME, but GNOME can't be configured to work like anything other than the vanilla GNOME the devs insist you must use. It's the antithesis of Linux IMO (modularity, reconfigurability, config-file-driven) and acts more like a MacOS skin.
KDE Plasma
If Gnome has worked for you the past ten years then keep using it.
XFCE 😅
Just use Linux Mint.
What distro? I've been using GNOME on Ubuntu and Debian for the past five years and I don't recall ever seeing a donation notification.
That is because it's new to gnome 49, debian and Ubuntu aren't bleeding edge to have them
I got exactly this notification on Arch last night
GNOME on Arch just feels so wrong to me...
I use hyprland by default but especially apps running under wine don't really like tiling window managers, Wayland , or both.
I mean no judgement, don't get me wrong. No need to defend yourself in any way. The whole joy of Linux is setting up your system how you want it. That totally checks out though.
Don't be a loser with no defuser!
I'm not sure why people enable any notifications on their desktop in the first place.
Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don't remember setting it up. Maybe it's a standard feature that was added at some point. It's honestly pretty great though.
