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It rarely affects me. I'd say 99% of my time in Gnome is spent in either Firefox or terminal. Suddenly I'll need a program so I hit windows key, type in the st

It rarely affects me. I'd say 99% of my time in Gnome is spent in either Firefox or terminal. Suddenly I'll need a program so I hit windows key, type in the start of the program name, and smash the Enter key. It's super simple. What's the problem?

Angeo34 6y ago
People don't get that Gnome is simply a new paradigm that is far superior to everything else. It's so easy to manage Windows just by hitting super you have everything at your disposal. It's boomers complaining of change genuinely.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
  Maybe if your screen real estate is limited (e.g. laptop) that is true. I work on 3 monitors; two of them are 1920x1200, the third is a 40" 4K "TV". Nothing about the Gnome model is useful to me. I appreciate that my setup is unusual, and that I do sometimes find myself on a laptop. But I prefer to keep the paradigms consistent, and so 5 named workspaces at all times, thank you very much. I never move windows between workspaces. All of the windows in a given workspace are visible at all times. And yes, boomer.
esclerofilo 6y ago
Did you read the comment? What do you do when you have multiple windows of the same app? Do you write the name of said program and then Alt-backtick until you get to the correct window? Wouldn't it be better to have your windows grouped in a way more related to their purpose than to the app? For example, say you're doing something (eg programming) that requires both the browser and the terminal. While you're at that, you want to do something that also requires both the browser and terminal (eg checking something in a terminal-based todo app to reply something to your coworkers in a web based chat app). Assuming you leave these things open, you now have to do 2 switches (app switch+tab/window switch) to get to whatever you're looking for in the worst case, 1.5 switches on average.
- INTPenis 6y ago
  No I misunderstood the comment completely. Talking about switching between programs, yes I thought that was a bit weird in the beginning but it came up so rarely that I eventually learned the habit of using alt+§ (on swedish layout). It's not so bad since the key is right above Tab.

Angeo34 6y ago

People don't get that Gnome is simply a new paradigm that is far superior to everything else. It's so easy to manage Windows just by hitting super you have everything at your disposal. It's boomers complaining of change genuinely.

PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
Maybe if your screen real estate is limited (e.g. laptop) that is true. I work on 3 monitors; two of them are 1920x1200, the third is a 40" 4K "TV". Nothing about the Gnome model is useful to me. I appreciate that my setup is unusual, and that I do sometimes find myself on a laptop. But I prefer to keep the paradigms consistent, and so 5 named workspaces at all times, thank you very much. I never move windows between workspaces. All of the windows in a given workspace are visible at all times. And yes, boomer.

esclerofilo 6y ago

Did you read the comment? What do you do when you have multiple windows of the same app? Do you write the name of said program and then Alt-backtick until you get to the correct window? Wouldn't it be better to have your windows grouped in a way more related to their purpose than to the app? For example, say you're doing something (eg programming) that requires both the browser and the terminal. While you're at that, you want to do something that also requires both the browser and terminal (eg checking something in a terminal-based todo app to reply something to your coworkers in a web based chat app). Assuming you leave these things open, you now have to do 2 switches (app switch+tab/window switch) to get to whatever you're looking for in the worst case, 1.5 switches on average.

INTPenis 6y ago
No I misunderstood the comment completely. Talking about switching between programs, yes I thought that was a bit weird in the beginning but it came up so rarely that I eventually learned the habit of using alt+§ (on swedish layout). It's not so bad since the key is right above Tab.