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Same here. XFCE seems nice and reasonable especially after GNOME went all crazy-pants user hostile.

• mekster 6y ago
  What happened to gnome?
  • rrmm 6y ago
    They started removing features for the sake of branding and their "desktop vision". They cut down on customization options that a lot of people were used to when they moved from gnome2 to gnome3. To me, it felt like they started believing themselves to be great innovators in an Apple model of "we know what's best for you, this is revolutionary. You'll take it and you'll like it. Witness our works and tremble." [1] I may be slightly hyperbolic there, but I worked on minor bits of the gtk code base and the way some of lead devs were talking I found frankly alienating. To be fair there were also practical reasons to limit customization for greater testing coverage and I think some of the changes were driven by RedHat's move towards being an enterprise vendor. But those changes in addition to the change in tone I was hearing was jarring. In any case several efforts attempted to move forward with the earlier code base or at least with the earlier philosophy. And I found one that was near enough to ok. [1] and eventually stuff like https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-theming-distros https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-the...
    • znpy 6y ago
      No hyperbola, you are spot on. Whereas apple stuff generally just works on the desktop, is super polished and generally fast, gnome3 is cumulatively an amass of crap. Which is very bad because gnome2 used to be very functional. They tried to become Apple, but they are not. They literally dumbed down the whole thing.