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I didn't hate GNOME shell because of the UI - I hated it because of the sheer volume of bugs and performance problems it caused. Some people think macOS is the

I didn't hate GNOME shell because of the UI - I hated it because of the sheer volume of bugs and performance problems it caused. Some people think macOS is the best, some prefer Windows, some prefer some Linux DE. Imo, all modern shells have zeroed in on a paradigm - give the user some icons to quickly launch/switch between his most used apps, and give him a quick search to find the rest. Other than that, in a world where people use VS Code, Slack, Spotify and Chrome, the underlying system barely matters from the user perspective as long as it works.

tombert 5y ago
I feel like a lot of the performance and stability complaints were absolutely true in the first ~2 years of Gnome shell, but when I gave it another shot in 2018 on a computer with an AMD CPU and GPU, it ran basically flawlessly for me. I definitely agree that everything being said, it matters less and less which environment you're actually using. I used to have fun with XMonad but I realized that I was spending 90% of my time in tmux, and about 10% of the time within a browser, so all one of these "optimized" windowing environments offered me was nerd-points. I felt like Gnome Shell got out of my way pretty quickly without it being too hard to pick up.