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I have not seen a distribution where updating Gnome wasn't an issue. I hope that System76 is serious about their DE, and that if their development approach is m

by Jnr 5y ago

I have not seen a distribution where updating Gnome wasn't an issue. I hope that System76 is serious about their DE, and that if their development approach is more inclusive and better planned, other distributions will follow them. In my opinion Gnome is a big reason why Linux Desktop is struggling to gain traction. It is not friendly to people migrating from other OS (the features are not there without tons of extensions) and it is not friendly to app and extension developers (things break after every small update and Gnome and GTK documentation is terrible). People should stop expecting that Gnome will improve in those fronts, and similarly as Wayland is replacing Xorg, something better should replace the Gnome and gnome-shell desktop experience.

culopatin 5y ago
I just installed fedora and I agree. Why would I want my whole screen to shrink everything every time I want to do something? I can’t even open an app without all the stuff shuffling around and back. Why can’t I see the dock when I bring my cursor to the bottom of the screen? Oh wait I have to go all the way up there to activities to see it. What windows do I have open? Oh wait I gotta go to activities again. How do I minimize something? Idk, no button. Double click? No that’s just maximize. I guess I can only close stuff. It’s almost like someone decided that we needed yet another “way “ of doing things instead of conforming to what people are used to.
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  Wow. I didn't realise things were that bad. I stopped trying out other DEs years ago. I quit KDE after the v4 trash fire (2008), quit Gnome after v3 (2011) and had a year long affair with Openbox (nice, but needs too much work to get basics working). I settled down with XFCE about 7 years ago and never looked back (or forward). Nothing is perfect, but at least XFCE doesn't wreck my flow after an upgrade, and I can script most things I care about and attach them to keyboard shortcuts or triggers.

by Jnr 5y ago

culopatin 5y ago

I just installed fedora and I agree. Why would I want my whole screen to shrink everything every time I want to do something? I can’t even open an app without all the stuff shuffling around and back. Why can’t I see the dock when I bring my cursor to the bottom of the screen? Oh wait I have to go all the way up there to activities to see it. What windows do I have open? Oh wait I gotta go to activities again. How do I minimize something? Idk, no button. Double click? No that’s just maximize. I guess I can only close stuff. It’s almost like someone decided that we needed yet another “way “ of doing things instead of conforming to what people are used to.

raffraffraff 5y ago
Wow. I didn't realise things were that bad. I stopped trying out other DEs years ago. I quit KDE after the v4 trash fire (2008), quit Gnome after v3 (2011) and had a year long affair with Openbox (nice, but needs too much work to get basics working). I settled down with XFCE about 7 years ago and never looked back (or forward). Nothing is perfect, but at least XFCE doesn't wreck my flow after an upgrade, and I can script most things I care about and attach them to keyboard shortcuts or triggers.