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I've avoided Gnome since the shift to GTK 3, when it became apparent that the devs were hiding functionality in the name of some greater vision that was never explained to lesser mortals.
You don't get to treat me as a moron, only my wife can do that.
XFCE and KDE have served me well, at least they don't hide settings and functionality from me.
I agree. GNOME 3 is completely unusable, and I can't stand client side decorations because it leads to inconsistencies and ugly apps. Give me a standard title bar FFS
I wouldn't say unusable, it's tolerable. But it does get in your face in a very opinionated way, that gets old fast.
Seems like 7 gnome devs use lemmy.
is this a reference to Lemmy's opposition to basic search functions