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You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Most Linux users abhor what Gnome has become.

blablablerg 3y ago
It is actually pretty decent. Since GNOME ~40 the desktop is pretty much out of your way and a joy to use imho.
abenga 3y ago
Just to balance the narrative, I think Gnome is the best DE. It does the best job staying out of the way and letting me focus on my work. Most Linux users I know (maybe 20 or so SEs I work with) use Gnome (or maybe the slightly modified ones by Pop/Ubuntu). I don't really see this widespread antipathy you speak of.
porridgeraisin 3y ago
I like XFCE a lot. It's really great especially if you're one who uses the browser for a lot of stuff, and don't care about Wayland. I install arch from scratch. Arc dark gtk theme. XFCE. I just delete the dock and make the menu the inbuilt whisker menu so it looks like the windows ui which I am comfy with. Add key bindings for win+numpad for window snapping, add super key binding for start menu. Looks nice, very very fast. None of it's inbuilt apps tho. I use the browser to open basically every file. The Google docs extension handles office files. Pdf, images, are opened natively obviously. VLC for media.
izietto 3y ago
Guess I'm an exception then. Gnome 3 had a slow and dumpy start but it's improving more and more now to me
rgoulter 3y ago
e.g. NixOS survey from last year. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983 has Gnome as highest with 259, followed by Plasma at 201. Though, prob'ly NixOS survey population isn't a good representation of wider Linux users. (xmonad got 108 on the same poll). Here's this poll from r/fedora from last year. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z5pt2z/what_is_your_favorite_desktop_environment/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z5pt2z/what_is_your... which has Gnome at 2.4k to KDE's 963.
- NekkoDroid 3y ago
  Here is another statistic from Arch: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=budgie-desktop,cinnamon,gnome-shell,lxde-common,mate-panel,plasma-workspace,xfdesktop https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=budg...
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clnq 3y ago
> You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Possibly, but that’s not what GP wanted to know.
mdwalters 3y ago
Did that almost a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007315

blablablerg 3y ago

It is actually pretty decent. Since GNOME ~40 the desktop is pretty much out of your way and a joy to use imho.

abenga 3y ago

Just to balance the narrative, I think Gnome is the best DE. It does the best job staying out of the way and letting me focus on my work. Most Linux users I know (maybe 20 or so SEs I work with) use Gnome (or maybe the slightly modified ones by Pop/Ubuntu). I don't really see this widespread antipathy you speak of.

porridgeraisin 3y ago

I like XFCE a lot. It's really great especially if you're one who uses the browser for a lot of stuff, and don't care about Wayland. I install arch from scratch. Arc dark gtk theme. XFCE. I just delete the dock and make the menu the inbuilt whisker menu so it looks like the windows ui which I am comfy with. Add key bindings for win+numpad for window snapping, add super key binding for start menu. Looks nice, very very fast. None of it's inbuilt apps tho. I use the browser to open basically every file. The Google docs extension handles office files. Pdf, images, are opened natively obviously. VLC for media.

izietto 3y ago

Guess I'm an exception then. Gnome 3 had a slow and dumpy start but it's improving more and more now to me

rgoulter 3y ago

e.g. NixOS survey from last year. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983 has Gnome as highest with 259, followed by Plasma at 201. Though, prob'ly NixOS survey population isn't a good representation of wider Linux users. (xmonad got 108 on the same poll). Here's this poll from r/fedora from last year. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z5pt2z/what_is_your_favorite_desktop_environment/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z5pt2z/what_is_your... which has Gnome at 2.4k to KDE's 963.

NekkoDroid 3y ago
Here is another statistic from Arch: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=budgie-desktop,cinnamon,gnome-shell,lxde-common,mate-panel,plasma-workspace,xfdesktop https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=budg...

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clnq 3y ago

> You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Possibly, but that’s not what GP wanted to know.

mdwalters 3y ago

Did that almost a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007315