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This year, I finally made the jump from Windows to Linux (specifically Fedora) and one thing I was anticipating was poorer, perhaps buggier UI. I was blown away
by bodge5000 4y ago
This year, I finally made the jump from Windows to Linux (specifically Fedora) and one thing I was anticipating was poorer, perhaps buggier UI. I was blown away by Gnome 41, it felt more like MacOS (not a reliable source for that, haven't used a mac in about a decade but you get the idea) than the slapped together front-end I was expecting. And the majority of the things I wasn't such a fan of (eg lack of taskbar) was easily fixed with gnome-extensions or tweaks. It barely took me even a month to get more used to it than Windows. And on top of all that, its incredibly performant (was running it on an X220).
Obviously its not perfect (I don't really like the look of the app-menu for example, looks a bit mobile-y), but I've yet to find anything better, not just on Linux but across any OS.
- 72deluxe 4y agoNot sure about the menu, but using Mate (which is GNOME2+ effectively), by default the menu was a weird menu in the style of Windows 11 where you had to type to find anything. But you could replace the menu with a different menu button from the applets list to get the traditional menu back / other styles. I wonder if it's the same for Gnome 4?