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gnome was the chosen ui and now its terrible, aiming for a mythical apple convert who wants a touch friendly interface gnome 2 was the truth. im curious if id

by aliqot 4y ago

gnome was the chosen ui and now its terrible, aiming for a mythical apple convert who wants a touch friendly interface gnome 2 was the truth. im curious if id still be running gui's today if gnome didnt crap the bed so bad, im mainly in tmux now.

teekert 4y ago
Switch to Mate.
- aliqot 4y ago
  these days if i must have a gui, it's xfce because it does the moves that got it to the dance, nothing more and nothing less.
krylon 4y ago
MATE is a fork of Gnome 2. I like it very much, and it's available on all major distros and on the BSD systems.
malermeister 4y ago
It's the perfect UI for this ex-MacBook user on the Surface. I'm glad somebody made a UI that actually works in both form factors. All that's missing is a swipe keyboard.
- aliqot 4y ago
  see? my point.
  - malermeister 4y ago
    Not your point. We're not mythical creatures. We exist.
    - aliqot 4y ago
      this doesn't need to be a crips and bloods thing. some day you'll assimilate. everyone has their own timeline.
      - malermeister 4y ago
        I'm not sure what you mean by this comment to be honest! But I've been using Linux for the past 15 years, with a detour to OS X for a while cause all the DEs/WMs sucked in the KDE4/early GNOME 3 era. Modern GNOME 3 is finally a good UX on Linux.
        aliqot 4y ago
        Try as you may but you're not going to get me to crack, my friend. I've been on Linux since the mid nineties. Things were much better for us before i-things rose to prominence, UI wise. I still love you as a fellow nerd and human, however, I do have some wishes that your laptop be smote, if only just to give you enough reprieve to notice the err of your ways.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    It’s also very good on a laptop with a touchpad. You swipe up for overview, swipe left right for another desktop, each desktop contains a few windows. It’s easy and fast.
    - aliqot 4y ago
      yes, this is one of many examples of gnome 3 deferring to MacOS's UX language

by aliqot 4y ago

teekert 4y ago

Switch to Mate.

aliqot 4y ago
these days if i must have a gui, it's xfce because it does the moves that got it to the dance, nothing more and nothing less.

krylon 4y ago

MATE is a fork of Gnome 2. I like it very much, and it's available on all major distros and on the BSD systems.

malermeister 4y ago

It's the perfect UI for this ex-MacBook user on the Surface. I'm glad somebody made a UI that actually works in both form factors. All that's missing is a swipe keyboard.

aliqot 4y ago
see? my point.
- malermeister 4y ago
  Not your point. We're not mythical creatures. We exist.
  - aliqot 4y ago
    this doesn't need to be a crips and bloods thing. some day you'll assimilate. everyone has their own timeline.
    - malermeister 4y ago
      I'm not sure what you mean by this comment to be honest! But I've been using Linux for the past 15 years, with a detour to OS X for a while cause all the DEs/WMs sucked in the KDE4/early GNOME 3 era. Modern GNOME 3 is finally a good UX on Linux.
      - aliqot 4y ago
        Try as you may but you're not going to get me to crack, my friend. I've been on Linux since the mid nineties. Things were much better for us before i-things rose to prominence, UI wise. I still love you as a fellow nerd and human, however, I do have some wishes that your laptop be smote, if only just to give you enough reprieve to notice the err of your ways.
- kaba0 4y ago
  It’s also very good on a laptop with a touchpad. You swipe up for overview, swipe left right for another desktop, each desktop contains a few windows. It’s easy and fast.
  - aliqot 4y ago
    yes, this is one of many examples of gnome 3 deferring to MacOS's UX language