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Gnome 3 is perfectly usable IMO, I use it every day. The initial release was pretty bad, but it's gotten much better over the years.
by bwat49 7y ago
Gnome 3 is perfectly usable IMO, I use it every day.
The initial release was pretty bad, but it's gotten much better over the years.
- dyingkneepad 7y agoWell, that is your opinion. In my world, extensions are required (at the very least, dash-to-dock). But extensions are a second class citizen and often stop working after an apt-get update. And Gnome forces my machine into heavy swapping. Cinnamon (which is almost the same thing, but usable) doesn't cause swapping.
- bwat49 7y agoI don't find dash to dock necessary at all. I just hit super key and type, or use the 3 finger pinch touchpad gesture to open the overview. In any case, in my experience extensions aren't as brittle as you're implying, they generally only stop working after a major gnome version update (e.g. 3.32 > 3.34) which you wouldn't get through an apt-get update. I haven't had any swapping issues at all, but I suppose this could be hardware dependent (e.g. nvidia drivers are known to cause serious memory leaks with mutter)