cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43631736
Gnome Slander Rules
We should dissolve the GNOME and KDE foundations and all switch to deepin and xfce. Then we might get discourse so stupid it actually kills people.
Too complicated, ice those two and stick to iceWM
I like Gnome
Fight me
Nah, we're good
keeps enjoying KDE
I like KDE too
We can be frens
Frens 'tis!
Now kitss!
Here here
Gnome behaves consistently. I want to love kde and have used it since the 3. Days but kwin seems to hate every build I've ever done.
Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn't taken over the desktop market.
CMM.
Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university
I loved it when I first encountered it. It was simple, elegant, and easy to use. Over time though, things got bad. I relied on an extension to show the taskbar on all monitors as well as the "Other locations" tab in the file manager to see disk usage plus some other things but these two broke the camel's back. Every upgrade the extension stopped working for a few months, but at least I could delay upgrading for a bit. That was until the extension maintainer went AWOL, so no update was made for at least a year.
The "other locations" tab showed disk usage just a click away from my usual workflows. As someone who has a habit of making high utilisation of my disks, keeping an eye on disk usage was required. That was until Gnome decided we were too good for such an easy location so now the only place to see disk usage is in the disk usage analyzer that 1) is rarely used 2) takes a while to start up while it's scanning the entire disk. My habit of checking disk usage thus died. Until I had to upgrade to the new distro version. And it turned out I didn't have enough storage left to carry out the installation so my laptop bricked itself halfway. I was lucky that I could boot with a rescue image to clear some space and continue the upgrade but the first thing I did when it was finished was to install Plasma and kill Gnome.
Yah, I'm not even being sarcastic. I think it's over-simplistic interface and disinterest in keeping extensions working over the years has been a major pissoff of people that stuck their nose in and then noped out. Maybe former Mac users could handle it since they're used to being herded around, but expecting Windows users to come into that bullshit and feel at home was a big mistake.
are you sure its gnome and not the hundreds of other problems that appear on kde and xfce too?
Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?
Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.
None of the problems in KDE and XFCE are caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user
Hey I like Gnome :((((((((((((
Linux is all about computing how you want. Remember that it is just a meme.
There are dozens of us
I'm the guy who actually likes and uses gnome as my daily driver.
It's for people who want to spend less time complaining about desktop environments and more time actually doing stuff.
Agreed. It's prettier then KDE. More same fonts, those are all over the place in KDE. Differentt fonts and different sizes.. no thanks.
Gnome is perfect for me.
Agreed, the workflow is good for me.
It puts the Gnome on its skin or else it gets the XFCE again.
Oh, you didn’t want to be disoriented by all the apps flying apart in every direction when ever you wanted to use the task bar? Oh you wanted a system tray not hidden behind a menu?
Oh, well you can just use a plug in … just pray we don’t update and break all the plug ins anytime soon.
My god, I really don't like Gnome.
Pretty art, but this meme is really getting boring. I think people are just regurgitating "GNOME bad" because they heard it from some tech youtuber instead of actually trying GNOME for themselves. IMHO GNOME is awesome. It's a bit different, but very comfortable when you get used to it. And definitely reliable.
I often see people using some h4x0r i3wm setup scrolling through workspaces and windows for literal minutes trying to find some app they were using earlier, while on GNOME you can just see everything spatially organised in the activities view. They think they have it "tailored for their needs", but they end up with an unmanageable config file with bits copy-pasted from the internet that is getting harder to understand over time and keeps breaking. I know it from my own experience too, I got tired of it and came back to GNOME.
But if you wanna go down that route, GNOME is also highly customisable. There's lots of extensions that let you change every aspect of it. If you know some JavaScript, you can make your own, there's a decent community and documentation. Things like Niri or Cosmic actually started off as GNOME extensions.
Here's your daily reminder that GNOME devs don't believe in minimizing windows
Why would I want to send my window to nowhere void land when I have infinite virtual desktops
I love Gnome but it fucking sucks
I see no lies
What's wrong with gnome?
Literally the only foundation that made Linux usable, stable, unified and customizable.
Yeah it is barebones and extensions can't really fully supercustomize it, but it does its job pretty well.
Controversial choices made by devs against most userbase mostly in the name of semplicity at the cost of usability.
Lately they've updated Nautilus's "open with" menu, which was working fine, to libadwaita and now it lacks search, so I must scroll through a long list of apps. Or other stuff like that which breaks retro-compatibility like no one cares (why do I need extensions and a custom theme by a random dude to make gtk3 not look alien next to gtk4?). Poor extensions developers must convert their extensions every six months.
I'm still on it because I like its apps' UX and Plasma still feels unpolished. But I think that's just a matter of time, given how things are going on.
you're at the whims of devs that DO NOT take user feedback at all. so it's a very opinionated DE. If you're not using GNOME the way the devs intend you to use it, then you shouldn't be using it according to them. so it kinda goes against the grain of Linux as a whole which is all about a custom user experience. GNOME says no to that idea.
None of this would be bad if the devs also didn't think that they should be the default Linux desktop. It's one thing having a constrictive desktop environment that forces you into its way of doing things. I can see that actually being useful in a corporate setting. But to borderline-force that on everyone by way of defaultism, especially those who don't know better, is where it crosses a line.
Everyone asking about gnome, but what's a braixen?
It's a Pokémon, and in the game, the creatures you don't intent to use are stored in a PC
Hint: :q!
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