Use gnome as is. If you need something you can configure, use Kde Plasma.
There are lots of ways in which modified GNOME is an excellent experience 😅
Its good to acknowledge that lack of customization is a central tradeoff of its design, but if they don't know whether what they need is possible, it's entirely valid for them to ask. Telling them not to do what they need and use something else seems unlikely to be a helpful contribution to the discussion.
For all they know there's an easy way to do exactly what they need, or a well maintained extension that will fill their usecase perfectly. From other replies it seems like they may have already gotten a really useful answer
The problem is that gnome breaks extensions all the time. I gave up customizing it just because of that.
This, relying on third party developers just to have basic UX options like Dash to Panel, only to be broken by GNOME updates is insane. The fact that they allow extensions in the first place is great but they really dont care about user experience in the modded realm when they push huge breaking changes from version to version.
The best choice if you need to customize things is to not use gnome.
The gnome team does not want you to change things, they want you to use it as is. They go out of their way to be obtuse and stubborn.
Trying to cope and claim gnome is worth using at all if you don't like vanilla gnome is cope of the highest order and actively just going to hurt people by making them suffer though a shit experience.
Use the right tool for the tool for the right job. Gnome is not a multi tool stop trying to make it one.
Just to clarify, not the person who downvoted you.
I'm a non technical user and have been using a plethora of extensions since my very first install with GNOME 😅. I use extensions to make it work currently as a media center, as well as just adjusting various aspects of the user experience.
I have a wonderful experience with customized GNOME, it serves me extremely well quite frankly. If I, a fairly non-technical (by linux standards) art and design nerd am having a great experience customizing things, I think it's safe to say other people might also get value out of, and be happy with GNOME after having made some adjustments.
I generally stick fairly close to the original ux these days, but I've straight up never used or wanted to use GNOME with no extensions or modifications. Which from hearing other people talk about it, I think is actually extremely common 😅
I've used both and completely agree.
i used fvwm for some 20 years. but when I switched to Wayland, I had to change window managers. I tried gnome first because it was the default on more distributions. works great as long as u use it as is . any customization is hard and needs gnome tweaks or some other extension...
kde plasma was just as light weight and completely configurable
Can you even disable the alt-tab popup on KDE Plasma?
I know there are different task switchers and you can download custom ones. But not sure if there is a way to just cycle windows with alt-tab directly instead getting a task switcher.
You can uncheck this checkbox:
I love KDE.
They're not afraid to add settings, unlike the gnome team.
Yeah. It's KDE, there's a setting for that.
There's a GNOME extension called "Just Perfection" that may be exactly what you're looking for. It let's you hide/disable pretty much any visual thing you can think of.
There is a shortcut to switch windows directly that defaults to alt+esc
thx. unfortunately that does not work with paperwm because it does not bring the window into view.
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