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Actually Gnome when it started was really good. I remember around 2000 same time as Redhat Linux 6, Gnome worked perfectly. But for some reason Gnome community

Actually Gnome when it started was really good. I remember around 2000 same time as Redhat Linux 6, Gnome worked perfectly. But for some reason Gnome community wasnt satisfied so they started modifying it so much that it worked more like Windows, when they were still not satisfied they wanted to become more like Mac with fancy animations and a Dock. Which is why very few use gnome these days. Gnome people have lost their way. Now its just a community of confused people, same applies to KDE. A more well disciplined community is i3, mint and elementary.

HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
KDE is actually much nicer as a community compared to Gnome with much less ego and less toxicity. Plus they develop and maintain a ton of useful applications while Gnome feels much more dried at this point.( I use i3 myself).
- pankajdoharey 8y ago
  That is true KDE is less toxic, but for us minimalist hackers i3 is simple and nice.
  - HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
    Agreed. I have xfce installed along side it because I was curious at some point so I have that extra daemon that makes a popup every time a command is completed(comes with xfce). It's useful when the terminal is on another workspace.
etatoby 8y ago
Kde 1 through 3 were excellent. There's still a fork of Kde 3 kept up to date by the Trinity project: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ For me, I've found Xfce to be decent and modest (what Gnome, Unity, and modern Kde Plasma are not.) But I wouldn't mind giving the old Kde 3 / Trinity a new try.
- pankajdoharey 8y ago
  WoW, that is awesome wasnt aware of it. Thanks!
  - etatoby 8y ago
    In fact, I just installed it on my XUbuntu and I'm trying it out again. It's really good, all the KDE apps are well integrated and it's extremely customizable.
cik 8y ago
Agreed - I loved gnome back in the 1.9 days, though I bounced between that and ratpoison a fair bit. Remember with Ximian was a thing, solidly making Gnome not only better but (to me) an appreciably better desktop? Until Yorba tried to roll out a bunch of things a few years back, I hadn't really seen other similar movement in the Unix desktop space. For me the biggest issue was always the GTK. Writing GTK code in the 2.x days was like pulling hair and things were pretty fractured. It got to the point that I was doing a lot of dev in QT-land that ultimately resulted in my giving in and KDE-ing for a long while. While I don't have fond memories of NeXT, it's nice to see people bringing back history. Damn, I feel old. I'm going to yell at some kids and hope they get off my lawn /s
Un1corn 8y ago
>Which is why very few use gnome these days Where did you get that info from? GNOME is the default on Debian, Ubuntu (probably the most popular distro) and Fedora
- simion314 8y ago
  Maybe OP was thinking of people that chose the DE and are not using the default because they don't know there is an alternative. Unfortunately in Linux community telemetry is controversial so we do not have accurate data on what people chose when they have a choice, surveys on reddit or other web pages are not reliable
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tokai 8y ago
The continued hate on gnome is getting old by now. We're a lot of people that enjoy gnome 3. It's stable, quick on non-ancient hardware, and it's a joy to get rid of the desktop metaphor. And the whole gnome ecosystem is comprehensive and well integrated.

HeadsUpHigh 8y ago

KDE is actually much nicer as a community compared to Gnome with much less ego and less toxicity. Plus they develop and maintain a ton of useful applications while Gnome feels much more dried at this point.( I use i3 myself).

pankajdoharey 8y ago
That is true KDE is less toxic, but for us minimalist hackers i3 is simple and nice.
- HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
  Agreed. I have xfce installed along side it because I was curious at some point so I have that extra daemon that makes a popup every time a command is completed(comes with xfce). It's useful when the terminal is on another workspace.

etatoby 8y ago

Kde 1 through 3 were excellent. There's still a fork of Kde 3 kept up to date by the Trinity project: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ For me, I've found Xfce to be decent and modest (what Gnome, Unity, and modern Kde Plasma are not.) But I wouldn't mind giving the old Kde 3 / Trinity a new try.

pankajdoharey 8y ago
WoW, that is awesome wasnt aware of it. Thanks!
- etatoby 8y ago
  In fact, I just installed it on my XUbuntu and I'm trying it out again. It's really good, all the KDE apps are well integrated and it's extremely customizable.

cik 8y ago

Agreed - I loved gnome back in the 1.9 days, though I bounced between that and ratpoison a fair bit. Remember with Ximian was a thing, solidly making Gnome not only better but (to me) an appreciably better desktop? Until Yorba tried to roll out a bunch of things a few years back, I hadn't really seen other similar movement in the Unix desktop space. For me the biggest issue was always the GTK. Writing GTK code in the 2.x days was like pulling hair and things were pretty fractured. It got to the point that I was doing a lot of dev in QT-land that ultimately resulted in my giving in and KDE-ing for a long while. While I don't have fond memories of NeXT, it's nice to see people bringing back history. Damn, I feel old. I'm going to yell at some kids and hope they get off my lawn /s

Un1corn 8y ago

>Which is why very few use gnome these days Where did you get that info from? GNOME is the default on Debian, Ubuntu (probably the most popular distro) and Fedora

simion314 8y ago
Maybe OP was thinking of people that chose the DE and are not using the default because they don't know there is an alternative. Unfortunately in Linux community telemetry is controversial so we do not have accurate data on what people chose when they have a choice, surveys on reddit or other web pages are not reliable
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tokai 8y ago

The continued hate on gnome is getting old by now. We're a lot of people that enjoy gnome 3. It's stable, quick on non-ancient hardware, and it's a joy to get rid of the desktop metaphor. And the whole gnome ecosystem is comprehensive and well integrated.