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    [–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    They need to stop messing with things that work. Feature creep is how Windows XP turned into the dumpster fire it is today. Does the interface have a working file explorer? Does it support add-ons? Does it have a file search? You're done.

    "But . . . "

    You're DONE.

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    [–] technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    As long as I can still customize Gnome with some extensions for improved focus, it'll stay my DE of choice.

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I did that for a while, but ultimately got too frustrated due to a few things:

    • Having to explore extensions in the first place for fairly basic functionally that I would have expected gnome to naturally implement
    • Every update would break extensions, and I'd have to wait for the extension author to update it, and about a fourth of the time the extension was abandoned and I would just have to go without or search for a similar.
    • At their best I always felt a lot of the extensions were having to settle for a lesser experience due to limitations of the extension mechanism.

    Ultimately, I found that experience I was trying to get to that gnome never would normally support and would evaporate on updates and never be quite right anyway was just a natural featureset of Plasma. So I just do that and haven't had to sweat updates nearly as much as when I kept trying to make a go of it with gnome shell. I kept giving it a shot because of my gnome 2 experience (admittedly augmented by compiz), but gnome 3/mutter have not been a good fit for me.

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    [–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

    I feel like the majority of DE developers are just back-end developers, which like, of course that's not going to be a great user experience lol

    [–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Please don't force touch design in me!

    [–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

    Please force touch design in me

    [–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I actually like Gnome. I like the way it looks and I have no problems with UX. I also don't feel the need to use any extensions.

    Β―\_('_')_/Β―

    [–] eli@lemmings.world 12 points 3 months ago

    It's a fine DE... But boy making appindicator/KStatus an un-officially-supported extension is dumb

    [–] DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I ended up switching to Gnome because KDE would always feel a bit jank to me. Something about it always feels slightly off, animations not working properly or being choppy like my desktop had an unstable framerate. Might just be it fighting with Nvidia, but I don't have several hundred bucks lying around to upgrade my card and switch to AMD...

    Kind of odd seeing the massive hate boner the community seems so have for Gnome, at least we have options for desktop environments at all.

    [–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I don't say much about it because it's stupid to argue, but I've used a LOT of different desktop interfaces over the past 45+ years (yeah, really!), and GNOME...well, GNOME sucks. When Gnome3 was first released we all had high hopes for it improving on Gnome2 (which for those of us on Unix systems was a huge improvement over CDE), and instead it was buggy, clunky, awkward, and an enormous resource hog. Oh yeah, and it was massively unconfigurable. AND it continued to not improve for many many years, until most people I know switched to KDE or one of the other environments (MATE, Cinnamon, and xfce were very popular).

    Gnome 4x added a touchscreen paradigm, whether you had a touchscreen or not, and made the experience worse in the process.

    If you like it, great! Use it and love it all you want! I'll play with it once every year or so just to see if someone has finally designed something that doesn't suck so badly, but for a functional desktop, no thanks.

    I think the fact that most of the 'fringe' desktops are well-known in the community because of people trying to escape GNOME is pretty telling.

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    [–] PanArab@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

    GNOME peaked with 2 which is why I prefer MATE.

    [–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Gnome has more in common with hyprland than it does with tablet interfaces

    Fight me fight me fight me fight me

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    [–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

    I love GNOME and hate KDE

    When i switched from Windows to Linux, i wanted actual changes, not just a slightly different look

    Unrelated question: does anyone know how to show the time in fullscreen or merge the bar with window close button with the top bar with the screen so there arent 2 different bars in GNOME?

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    [–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Old gnome is nostalgic to me, because my first venture into Linux was Fedora Core 4. I was still using Win98 at the time, and gnome 2.10 felt so modern in comparison, with rounded corners and soft gradients.

    Coming back to Linux after having not touched it for a very, very long time I tried gnome again and I just do not like it at all. It's weird looking. Maybe too modern for me, i don't know.

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    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

    Gnome has the best kbm experience out of the box

    But this meme doesn’t make sense because Gnome is also really high in the accessibility community

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