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[-] technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago

As long as I can still customize Gnome with some extensions for improved focus, it'll stay my DE of choice.

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Please don't force touch design in me!

[-] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Please force touch design in me

[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually like Gnome. I like the way it looks and I have no problems with UX. I also don't feel the need to use any extensions.

¯\_('_')_/¯

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

I feel like the majority of DE developers are just back-end developers, which like, of course that's not going to be a great user experience lol

[-] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I ended up switching to Gnome because KDE would always feel a bit jank to me. Something about it always feels slightly off, animations not working properly or being choppy like my desktop had an unstable framerate. Might just be it fighting with Nvidia, but I don't have several hundred bucks lying around to upgrade my card and switch to AMD...

Kind of odd seeing the massive hate boner the community seems so have for Gnome, at least we have options for desktop environments at all.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

I don't say much about it because it's stupid to argue, but I've used a LOT of different desktop interfaces over the past 45+ years (yeah, really!), and GNOME...well, GNOME sucks. When Gnome3 was first released we all had high hopes for it improving on Gnome2 (which for those of us on Unix systems was a huge improvement over CDE), and instead it was buggy, clunky, awkward, and an enormous resource hog. Oh yeah, and it was massively unconfigurable. AND it continued to not improve for many many years, until most people I know switched to KDE or one of the other environments (MATE, Cinnamon, and xfce were very popular).

Gnome 4x added a touchscreen paradigm, whether you had a touchscreen or not, and made the experience worse in the process.

If you like it, great! Use it and love it all you want! I'll play with it once every year or so just to see if someone has finally designed something that doesn't suck so badly, but for a functional desktop, no thanks.

I think the fact that most of the 'fringe' desktops are well-known in the community because of people trying to escape GNOME is pretty telling.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you used Gnome back in the day you know there was a lot of that configurability built in. Then one day the developer decided to start taking it away. Slowly but surely all the ability to configure Gnome was removed. If you experienced this arc like I did you were left scratching your head.

Yes KDE was always more configurable, but removing what configurability Gnome did have made it less useful. For power users this is a big deal. It is like a company taking away all your features and thinking you are going to like it.

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[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

It's always wild to me how these hateposts climb to the top, when all the complaints can be boiled down to "I don't like the design choices"

Have you tried... Just not using it? No one's forcing you to use it. Have you tried using a different DE instead?

[-] naught101@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

True to some extent, and I do this, but some aspects are unavoidable. For example the GTK save/open dialogue is used by Firefox, and it sucks (why can't I type the fucking path in?). There aren't good and popular alternative browsers that use Qt or any other toolkit with a decent dialogue.

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[-] eli@lemmings.world 12 points 2 months ago

It's a fine DE... But boy making appindicator/KStatus an un-officially-supported extension is dumb

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

GNOME peaked with 2 which is why I prefer MATE.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Gnome has the best kbm experience out of the box

But this meme doesn’t make sense because Gnome is also really high in the accessibility community

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 points 2 months ago

Gnome has more in common with hyprland than it does with tablet interfaces

Fight me fight me fight me fight me

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[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Old gnome is nostalgic to me, because my first venture into Linux was Fedora Core 4. I was still using Win98 at the time, and gnome 2.10 felt so modern in comparison, with rounded corners and soft gradients.

Coming back to Linux after having not touched it for a very, very long time I tried gnome again and I just do not like it at all. It's weird looking. Maybe too modern for me, i don't know.

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[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

I prefer gnome. It feels like Linux to me. I don’t want a windows clone like every other DE

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