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[-] jack@monero.town 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gnome has a core featureset and a robust extension-system if you need more. There is no bloatware in Gnome.

Why is there noticeable delay tho when you open apps like Nautilus or Settings? Not even the terminal opens instantly

[-] wolii1@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I don't really know what you mean, I don't have a delay when opening apps, at least not a noticable one. However, do keep in mind that Gnome isn't really meant for slower hardware.

[-] jack@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Running Manjaro Gnome on a thinkpad from 2020. This is the ootb experience for me

[-] wolii1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You are aware that Manjaro ships a heavily modified version of Gnome (lots of theming-stuff and extensions)? You should try vanilla Gnome (eg. on Fedora/Arch/VanillaOS) or try disabling everything.

[-] jack@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Worth a try. However, the Debian Gnome my university offers has similar delays, so Gnome at least tends to get slow in the environments it normally gets used in. Based on obersavtion. I also don't remember noticing those delays when I tried other flavors of Manjaro like i3

[-] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Is there any desktop OS that open apps instantly? Because I have never seen any, my phone definitely beats any of them.

[-] jack@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago

(Tiling) window managers like i3, dwm or sway open apps instantly. If not, then this is mostly because the app you want to open is bloated/ too complex.

[-] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Why would they open them faster? They do the exact same shit. It takes a long time because the OS has to load every file into memory, and especially the first time things line the whole gtk library is loaded is taking its time.

[-] jack@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago

That's just my experience

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I kinda had the opposite experience, switching from gnome to plasma for the more experimental features it supports on Wayland.

So far, plasma needs like a literal minute after logging in before any app can open.

That came with other weird issues, like alt-tabbing with a Fullscreen game being very finicky, sometimes refusing to alt-tab, and sometimes the taskbar breaks and stays frozen for most of the time, only unfreezing for a few seconds every minute or so.

I would sum up my experience as GNOME being more polished, working more consistently, while Plasma is perhaps better designed, more full-featured, including cases where GNOME is waiting on something to be implemented/standardized.

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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