(If you know where I stole this from, I love you.)

  • jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    3 hours ago

    All the JavaScript in gnome make it super icky to me as an ex-webdev, and unusable on hardware that is otherwise perfectly fine with other DEs. From high resource usage, memory leaks, and breaking extensions, I have a hard time believing that their userbase is anyone other than mobile native younger folk who are good at consuming via the iPad launcher paradigm. Just my humble opinion, nothing more.

  • luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    51·
    4 hours ago

    I tried to use linux on a tablet, I’ve tried GNOME multiple times since it is apparently the best for touchscreen-only devices. This was hell.

    As much as I’d love to be able to like that thing I just can’t.

    Zero customisability, everything has to be changed through extensions, but the extension manager isn’t even part of GNOME’s core and has to be installed separately.

    The settings page is severely lacking so I had to configure everything in .conf files or through CLI directly.

    And the whole thing is as stable as a one-legged chair on top of a unbalanced washing machine.

    KDE extension crashing : “oupsie a part of your desktop crashed and restarted as fast as possible, hope you didn’t notice”

    GNOME extension crashing : “go fuck yourself, I burned your whole session to the ground, log back in and pray you weren’t doing anything worth saving”

    In the end I customized KDE to look and behave like GNOME, this way around was surprisingly easier than just making GNOME bearable.

    Oh and to the taskbar haters out there : my first computer was running windows 95 so you’ll be taking my taskbar from my cold dead hands, only KDE let me fulfill my dream of putting taskbars absolutely everywhere (even got two perpendicular ones on my bottom monitor)

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
    4·
    6 hours ago

    I think the key is to just not hate on someone else for having a preference for one you don’t care for. (And not being an overzealous missionary for your own preference.) It’s fun seeing the variety and people geeking out about the little intricacies they love about their favorites

  • JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 hours ago

    This made me laugh more than it should have. It perfectly captures how we all try to be neutral… until that one preference slips out. Classic moment.

  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
    73·
    8 hours ago

    I like gnome and it’s philosophy 😬

    There’s plenty of “customizability” friendly options out there. I like how gnome isn’t afraid to break things to improve

    • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
      77·
      8 hours ago

      Gnome haven’t “improved” anything since gnome 2. Gnome 3 and above? Only downhill from there.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    7·
    10 hours ago

    I like gnome DE, I dislike the arrogance of the project team.

    My straw was the login-to-exposé thing.

    • ADTJ@feddit.uk
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      Can you elaborate for the curious? I tried searching but couldn’t find anything. What’s the login to exposé thing?

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      It was (and still is) the default input focus to the Search box on the Save dialog. Why? Just… why? Why would I ever want to start typing in the Search box when I’m saving a file. I have never, ever thought to myself as I saved something that I should search for something to name this thing I’m saving after something else somewhere on this filesystem.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialOPEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        Why? Just… why?

        Any time you ask the Gnome devs this, you can expect the answer to be “elegance”. And then they block you.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 hours ago

    The #2 reason I’m still on a Mac is because I prefer the look of its UX. Can you recommend a good window manager/theme that replicates macOS Sequoia?

    And also one that will replicate system 7 because I am an old and nostalgic man.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      5 hours ago

      If it happens to be exactly what you want, then you’re golden. If not, you have a fight on your hands.

  • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
    91·
    11 hours ago

    I prefer the default gnome experience to the default kde experience.

    I also prefer the styling of most gnome apps, and actively dislike kde apps styling.

    Gnome is less customizable, but customizable enough for what I want.

    I’m also biased, because I was using Ubuntu since it came out, up until a few years ago 🤷‍♂️

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I’m also biased, because I was using Ubuntu since it came out, up until a few years ago 🤷‍♂️

      Yes. Same here. I’ll complain about pain points in Gnome all day, but I owe the various gnome contributors many thanks. Gnome has been a more than good enough daily driver for me plenty of times.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    32·
    7 hours ago

    I actually kinda like gnome. I like most of the others too, but I default to gnome. Also I use the hot corners all the time

  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    12 hours ago

    I love GNOME but I found the default usage pattern aligned very well for laptops. And I don’t mind they only implement finalized Wayland protocols. But Wayland moves so slow!

    I use KDE on in my normal desktop because I want VRR and HDR for gaming. I like KDE but its default theme still looks rough around the edges and it has random bugs and kwin crashes when gaming and sometimes on resume.

    Both have things I like and things I don’t like and I wish I could take the best from both.

    I like Cosmic DE a lot because of this. It feels light, efficient, and smooth like KDE. But it feels coherent, consistent, and laptop friendly like Gnome.

    … But Cosmic still feels a bit too incomplete for me to daily.