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Stay far away from Gnome3; it's a performance, usability and accessibility dumpster fire. MATE, XFCE, LXDE and KDE are all better choices.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
Dont forget Budgie. While not quite as polished as it can be its a newcomer so I am not surprised. It is otherwise a sweet DE for me.
- vips7L 7y ago
  I ran budgie for about a year before switching back to windows for work and its leagues better than Gnome in my experience. Though at this point I think I would go for KDE given the opportunity.
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    I dont mind KDE and I do like Kubuntu but at work everyones on Gnome DEs so I try to have close enough environments so they dont blame KDE for all my problems when things break.
    - vips7L 7y ago
      I get it. The mac dev's like to blame windows at my place.
      - giancarlostoro 7y ago
        Windows usually has some easier to setup utilities to develop on for some projects. We have Mac, Windows and mostly Linux devs. I sometimes wish I was on Windows its more predictable to me.
squarefoot 7y ago
Sadly Gnome3, although sucking badly in many aspects, dumbed down and bloated, is the only viable option for tablets. Unless something has changed in the last months, having correct screen orientation and rotation consistent with correct touch management without adding/editing scripts by hand is a nightmare: imagine you finally get the screen correctly orientated but now if you drag the finger to the right the arrow goes up.
Grimm665 7y ago
Funnily, I find I am most productive in Gnome 3, despite its many flaws. The workflow that revolves around the super key to view, launch, and switch between windows and desktops works very well, and I have not been able to fully recreate the same experience in any of the other DEs (though I haven't tried Budgie). One big change that helped reduce the performance lag is turning off animations using the Tweak Tool. It was like a breath of fresh air once I made that adjustment.

giancarlostoro 7y ago

Dont forget Budgie. While not quite as polished as it can be its a newcomer so I am not surprised. It is otherwise a sweet DE for me.

vips7L 7y ago
I ran budgie for about a year before switching back to windows for work and its leagues better than Gnome in my experience. Though at this point I think I would go for KDE given the opportunity.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  I dont mind KDE and I do like Kubuntu but at work everyones on Gnome DEs so I try to have close enough environments so they dont blame KDE for all my problems when things break.
  - vips7L 7y ago
    I get it. The mac dev's like to blame windows at my place.
    - giancarlostoro 7y ago
      Windows usually has some easier to setup utilities to develop on for some projects. We have Mac, Windows and mostly Linux devs. I sometimes wish I was on Windows its more predictable to me.

squarefoot 7y ago

Sadly Gnome3, although sucking badly in many aspects, dumbed down and bloated, is the only viable option for tablets. Unless something has changed in the last months, having correct screen orientation and rotation consistent with correct touch management without adding/editing scripts by hand is a nightmare: imagine you finally get the screen correctly orientated but now if you drag the finger to the right the arrow goes up.

Grimm665 7y ago

Funnily, I find I am most productive in Gnome 3, despite its many flaws. The workflow that revolves around the super key to view, launch, and switch between windows and desktops works very well, and I have not been able to fully recreate the same experience in any of the other DEs (though I haven't tried Budgie). One big change that helped reduce the performance lag is turning off animations using the Tweak Tool. It was like a breath of fresh air once I made that adjustment.