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Just avoid GNOME altogether. Complete mess in general.
by bradley_taunt 9mo ago
Just avoid GNOME altogether. Complete mess in general.
- lelanthran 9mo agoSeconded. They are designing for a theoretical user that does not exist.
- tuyiown 9mo agoI not sure if I should be relieved or worried about my newfound non-existence.
- _fat_santa 9mo agoFor all of GNOME's faults, it's provided me a much better experience than other DE's. XFCE and others don't handle fractional scaling nearly as gracefully as GNOME does. KDE is probably the closest but you still have the issue of running GTK/QT apps and they all look very different and jarring on the desktop.
- w4rh4wk5 9mo agoThe introduction of hamburger menus broken many of the Alt+Letter shortcut workflows. Even to this day, GNOME applications are hard to fully control via keyboard. I'll never understand how this can be deemed acceptable from an accessibility standpoint.
- reddalo 9mo agoI also think that the absence of a title bar is so much annoying. They wanted to copy macOS, but macOS somehow used to do it better (at least before Tahoe).
- devsda 9mo agoI should really thank them though. I disliked the black bars release(v3 I think) so much that I moved back to KDE and then also tried lxqt, xfce and i3 but never GNOME. If not for that release I would have probably been stuck with only GNOME and never try other options.
- reddalo 9mo agoMe too. Nowadays I think Cinnamon (Linux Mint's default DE) has also a super good UX, it reminds me a lot of old school GNOME.
- cestith 9mo agoCinnamon and MATE are the directions I’d have preferred for Gnome to go. It’s a good thing devs like this aren’t designing cars. I really don’t want to steer my car with the foot pedals and throttle with my hands.
- blibble 9mo agothat's pretty easy unfortunately much harder to avoid all GTK3+ apps especially the cursed open/save dialogs, which are so bad I'd prefer the Windows 3.1 dialog