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gnome has taken some heat lately so i feel obliged to share some love for it. it's a great DE in that it stays out of my way when i want it to and it offers sub
by modzu 6y ago
gnome has taken some heat lately so i feel obliged to share some love for it. it's a great DE in that it stays out of my way when i want it to and it offers subtle help to things i need it to (window manage, multitask, etc). i think in 2020 it beats them all (including macos and win) ️
- tdubhro1 6y agoI just came back to running Linux as my primary OS and went for Fedora 32 with the default Gnome install; overall I’m blown away at how great the experience has been so far, everything works well out of the box (for many years I used Ubuntu and had endless problems with basic stuff like audio and networking), and the desktop environment feels incredible, it manages to combine the minimalist uncluttered feel of dwm or xmonad (when in app) with the kind of rich experience of MacOS when navigating to an app or settings. Kudos to everyone involved.
- thekyle 6y agoThere's lots to like about GNOME. I would say its one of the most polished desktops with lots of first party apps for it. It definitely has the best search of any DE. But I would have a hard time recommending it to most people I know (at least vanilla GNOME). It just breaks too many workflows. They removed desktop icons which I don't use but lots of people do. The removed the minimize and maximize buttons meaning you either have to close apps or move them to another desktop. The most annoying one for me is that they removed the system tray which just straight up broke a bunch of apps (mostly sync clients like Dropbox). Now, all of those features can be added back with extensions (which may break in a future release) but I don't thing most people want to deal with that. Thankfully there are distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro that patch GNOME and add back in missing features.