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Gnome is Rethinking Window Management
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Window management in macOS is not even as good as current Linux stuff
nah, this is totally wrong, want to have a windows like ui?, switch to every other DE that exist, it's thwir project, they do what they want, and they can experiment thungs if they want, that's the beauty of linux
yes, they can take bad decisions sometimes, but don't act like they are slowing down progreds, because they aren't, why we want have 200 looklike DEs?
Those preset layouts you get in Windows 11 when you hover over the maximize button are a huge step forward. Also nice is the way it remembers your window groupings and treats them as a single unit when you hover over the icon of any of the applications involved in the task bar, so you can restore the whole window group with a single click.
That said, on my Linux machines I use Cinnamon and KDE, and I haven't found either frustrating for window management. Gnome lost me during their first major overhaul.
I think the current KDE Plasma looks just as good as many of the alternatives. It's certainly far from the jarring design mess that KDE was for decades, and for the first time in years I'm actually happy to use it.
no?, it's simply easier to click and find the app, it's not like you are looking anywhere ense when you open windows start, and i use KDE with the fullscreen start-menu
https://youtu.be/GkxAp2Gh7-E
and windows 8 did a lot more shit to just blame it in the start-menu
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That's just not true, at least in my experience. I typically use the search box to open what I am looking for, and frankly would be very annoyed if I had to switch to something that takes over my entire screen to do that. I don't even have to do that on my phone, and that is my biggest complaint with Gnome is that it looks and feels like they are trying to make a mobile interface first, not a PC interface. And if I have to browse for something, I do still much prefer a small organized menu to something filling my entire screen. I'm on an ultra-wide screen, I don't want to have to physically turn my head to see the entire list. Maybe this makes sense on very small screens but that circles me back around to feeling like Gnome is meant for a tablet and not my desktop PC.
Clearly we all have different ideas and work flows that we like, and that's fine. I'm very happy there are alternatives to Gnome as I've hated it every time I've tried it; but, obviously there are a lot of people that like what they are doing. I just probably won't ever understand those people.
Windows is always one step ahead because they experiment a lot. their experiments may flop, they may face outrage, but they are always trying new things. and when they find something good they stick with it.
Things appearing suddenly on screen is more distracting than 200ms animations. On Gnome you're supposed to click the meta key, type the first 3 letters of the app name, click enter, and the app opens. If you can do it fast enough then you won't even see the animations, if you can't then the animations aren't the problem.
MacOS window management sucks, and Gnome/Plasma are already the face of the Linux desktop.