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Gnome 3 is the best desktop environment I've ever used - my comment history on HN over the past 5 years definitely indicates as much. I'm not going to claim I'v

by Andrex 10y ago

Gnome 3 is the best desktop environment I've ever used - my comment history on HN over the past 5 years definitely indicates as much. I'm not going to claim I've used all of them, but compared to what I've seen in Unity, macOS, and various versions of Windows (except Windows 10, which I have not tried), it's modern, fluid, and intuitive. To see Gnome return to the fold of Ubuntu is a huge deal to me and I couldn't be happier or more excited on this decision. Shuttleworth deserves a lot of praise and admiration for taking this bold (and likely painful) path. (On a related note, I was reading up on Apple's switch from PowerPC to Intel earlier today, and it feels very familiar to this.)

smoyer 10y ago
I originally quit Ubuntu because I didn't like Unity ... Gnome is great, I can live with KDE but now I'm moving towards even lighter solutions. I won't miss Unity at all!
- akerro 10y ago
  >KDE but now I'm moving towards even lighter solutions. Gnome3 won't be a good move from Plasma5. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros_ram_consumption_comparison_updated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros...
- Omnius 10y ago
  What other lighter solutions are you using?
  - zeveb 10y ago
    I'm personally using a tiling window manager (StumpWM, in my case, but dwm & i3 are both nice too). It feels, in every way, like the future of desktop interaction. And it's a lot lighter-weight than the GNOME desktop. Doesn't do as much, granted, but isn't that kinda the point?
  - smoyer 10y ago
    I've got XFCE installed but I'm working on learning RatPoison (a tiling window manager that doesn't use the mouse). It's a bit of a learning curve, so depending on what I'm working on, I switch between them (for now). It's also a bit more of a pain to run multiple monitors with RatPoison and I've become well acquainted with reorganizing my screen configurations using the console commands to xrandr. I also should have noted that I switched back to Xubuntu from Linux Mint.

by Andrex 10y ago

smoyer 10y ago

I originally quit Ubuntu because I didn't like Unity ... Gnome is great, I can live with KDE but now I'm moving towards even lighter solutions. I won't miss Unity at all!

akerro 10y ago
>KDE but now I'm moving towards even lighter solutions. Gnome3 won't be a good move from Plasma5. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros_ram_consumption_comparison_updated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros...
Omnius 10y ago
What other lighter solutions are you using?
- zeveb 10y ago
  I'm personally using a tiling window manager (StumpWM, in my case, but dwm & i3 are both nice too). It feels, in every way, like the future of desktop interaction. And it's a lot lighter-weight than the GNOME desktop. Doesn't do as much, granted, but isn't that kinda the point?
- smoyer 10y ago
  I've got XFCE installed but I'm working on learning RatPoison (a tiling window manager that doesn't use the mouse). It's a bit of a learning curve, so depending on what I'm working on, I switch between them (for now). It's also a bit more of a pain to run multiple monitors with RatPoison and I've become well acquainted with reorganizing my screen configurations using the console commands to xrandr. I also should have noted that I switched back to Xubuntu from Linux Mint.