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With one of the recent versions of GNOME (4.0? on Ubuntu 20.04 or so), you can't even create icons on the desktop. They broke a GUI paradigm that has existed si
by bxparks 5y ago
With one of the recent versions of GNOME (4.0? on Ubuntu 20.04 or so), you can't even create icons on the desktop. They broke a GUI paradigm that has existed since the dawn of Unix time, WTF. I blew away GNOME on all my Linux computers, and installed Ubuntu MATE or Linux Mint.
I love Linux as a development environment. But the desktop experience has so many rough edges, it will be "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" for the next 100 years.
- vetinari 5y ago> hey broke a GUI paradigm that has existed since the dawn of Unix time, WTF. Did you feel similarly, when serial and parallel ports were removed from computers? Or floppy drives? Seriously, desktop icons are a wart (and so is systray); removing them is a step forward.
- Mikeb85 5y agoThank god. Icons on the desktop are an abomination, the current (default) Gnome Shell workflow is way better. And BTW, Ubuntu still allows icons on the desktop as default (unfortunately). So not sure what you did.