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Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It's unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I've ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.
I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it's default on many distros, people install "linux" and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.
What’s wrong with the MacOS UI? It works pretty well, and is pretty easy to pick up. Some of the biggest complaining I heard back in the day is that the close/min/max buttons were on the other side and someone who can’t handle that doesn’t have an opinion worth entertaining. Most of it was just a extreme refusal to learn out of spite which is more embarrassing for them than an argument.
I don't hate macOS, and I don't even know if I consider it worse than Windows, but here are a few things I dislike.
Finder is ass, no feature to get filepath, no feature to open location in terminal, no way to go to parent folder (the button that looks like it does this actually is a "back" button that takes you to previous location).
Also you can't quit Finder for some reason. On my Debian VM I can quit Dolphin. Finder is probably embedded to show files on the desktop. (I've never understood having the desktop be a directory, seems like bloat to me.)
Overall the DE is a lot worse than Plasma:
It's also a walled garden that intentionally makes compiling apps for it hard for small devs (you need to be verified by apple to have your app not be flagged as "probably a virus")
The only good thing about MacOS is that it is a very stable OS that rarely needs fixing.
I'm installing Asahi Linux as soon as it supports DisplayPort over USB-C.