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The gnome devs have built something almost exactly how I want. If the gnome devs listened to most of the feedback I see on HN, I would no longer like the DE. C
by hexa22 5y ago
The gnome devs have built something almost exactly how I want. If the gnome devs listened to most of the feedback I see on HN, I would no longer like the DE.
Consider that different users have different preferences. I have tried almost all of the DE/WMs and have found gnome to be the most stable/best looking/best defaults.
- southerntofu 5y agoI have the same feeling that you do. But for some reason some stuff has been broken on GNOME that did not require breaking. My three biggest pain points (both personally and for the non-tech people i provide tech support with) is alt-tab not switching between all open window in recent order usage, the disappearance of the venerable systray, and .desktop files not proposing to be executed (at least on Debian). These three points are contrary to every other desktop environment there is, and it's confusing the hell out of people. I really wish GNOME the best and i really like some aspects of it (it's pretty and it's well-integrated) but over the years they've dumped core features like this, and made the overall experience super slow. If you've tried to run GNOME on second-hand hardware with HDD (not SSD) you know what i'm talking about.