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Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up 😅

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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 21 points 6 days ago (22 children)

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.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (12 children)

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

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.

  1. Overuse of icons with no clear way to turn on labels combined with a weirdly high time for tooltips to appear makes things confusing.
  2. Finder doesn't have a way to just go up a directory or easily type/get the path of the current folder. The home folder is not in the shortcut area by default.
  3. "Alt tabbing" between windows behaves very differently, though it's not necessarily worse, just different. Command tab switches programs. Command back tick switches windows of that program. So if you want to switch between windows of a browser it is a different shortcut. This one is entirely opinion based. But still, there's no way to change the behavior.
  4. Notifications go away after a very short time period or stay forever. There isn't an easy way to get them to stick around longer without making them stay until you dismiss them. It'd be nice to have a middle ground between a few seconds and forever.
  5. Closing a window doesn't necessarily close a program. Like the "alt tabbing" thing this is opinion based too, because these approaches both technically predate the other approach. Sometimes you close a window and it has a dot on the task bar meaning it's still running. It's very odd.

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:

  • Why isn't the Dock (taskbar that eats 300 to 1200 MB of ram) a screen edge for moving windows
  • Why won't you let me customize stuff
  • Why are app actions in the DE top bar rather than the window name bar

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.

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