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What can GNOME do to still chase after power users? I genuinely don’t see what it has to add to powerusers. There’s great window managers and CLI/TUI tools, is

What can GNOME do to still chase after power users? I genuinely don’t see what it has to add to powerusers. There’s great window managers and CLI/TUI tools, is there anything GNOME could offer for non-beginners that’s not already done better?

ndiddy 4y ago
Unless KDE has significantly changed in the last few months, GNOME is the only DE that supports multiple monitors with different DPIs.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  I've run into this problem. I consider Gnome to be completely unusable, so I'll suffer with some kind of workaround, any workaround, rather than use Gnome.
- ColonelPhantom 4y ago
  Were you using KDE on X11? On Wayland, I can change my scaling setting per-display.
quanticle 4y ago
You genuinely don't see what Gnome has to offer power users because the Gnome developers removed all the configuration and customization options that would have been helpful for power users. Gnome 2 was just as customizable as KDE. Then with Gnome 3 they removed almost every option. Now, with a combination of Gnome 42, Gnome Tweak Tool and the aforementioned extensions, some (not all, some) of those customization options are back. Only, now, instead of having all customization options built-in and available from the beginning you have to understand that you have to install Gnome Tweak Tool in order to, for example, remap Caps Lock to Ctrl. That's something that MacOS offers out of the box. That's something that KDE offers out of the box. Gnome used to offer it out of the box too, but they deliberately removed the option. Really, that's what gets me. It's not as if the world moved on and Gnome just didn't keep up. No. Gnome 2 was actually better than Gnome 3. The Gnome devs removed features for what, as far as I can tell, were purely aesthetic reasons. Put another way, whenever we see Microsoft or Apple dumbing down their operating systems, do we not criticize them for unnecessarily making life more difficult for their users? Why should we give Gnome a free pass for doing exactly the same thing?

ndiddy 4y ago

Unless KDE has significantly changed in the last few months, GNOME is the only DE that supports multiple monitors with different DPIs.

midoridensha 4y ago
I've run into this problem. I consider Gnome to be completely unusable, so I'll suffer with some kind of workaround, any workaround, rather than use Gnome.
ColonelPhantom 4y ago
Were you using KDE on X11? On Wayland, I can change my scaling setting per-display.

quanticle 4y ago

You genuinely don't see what Gnome has to offer power users because the Gnome developers removed all the configuration and customization options that would have been helpful for power users. Gnome 2 was just as customizable as KDE. Then with Gnome 3 they removed almost every option. Now, with a combination of Gnome 42, Gnome Tweak Tool and the aforementioned extensions, some (not all, some) of those customization options are back. Only, now, instead of having all customization options built-in and available from the beginning you have to understand that you have to install Gnome Tweak Tool in order to, for example, remap Caps Lock to Ctrl. That's something that MacOS offers out of the box. That's something that KDE offers out of the box. Gnome used to offer it out of the box too, but they deliberately removed the option. Really, that's what gets me. It's not as if the world moved on and Gnome just didn't keep up. No. Gnome 2 was actually better than Gnome 3. The Gnome devs removed features for what, as far as I can tell, were purely aesthetic reasons. Put another way, whenever we see Microsoft or Apple dumbing down their operating systems, do we not criticize them for unnecessarily making life more difficult for their users? Why should we give Gnome a free pass for doing exactly the same thing?