This must be about Gnome 2.8 when Gnome indeed was by far the most popular desktop environment on Linux.
And then Gnome 2.8 was deprecated and no longer maintained, and for years after Gnome Shell was complete and utter shit.
IMO it still is, because they have changed fundamentals like how virtual desktops work, that disrupt my workflow.
I agree Gnome is more elegant, but that’s irrelevant when key fundamentals simply don’t work anymore.
So to get the desktop I like to actually use, I use KDE instead.
Edit: Final release was 2.32 as u/esc correctly writes below.
You are right, I just remember it as using 2.8 for an extended period of time. But looking it up, 2.8 was a milestone from 2004, and 2.32 was the final release.
I switched to Linux as my main OS in 2005. So I probably started on 2.8.
This must be about Gnome 2.8 when Gnome indeed was by far the most popular desktop environment on Linux.
And then Gnome 2.8 was deprecated and no longer maintained, and for years after Gnome Shell was complete and utter shit.
IMO it still is, because they have changed fundamentals like how virtual desktops work, that disrupt my workflow.
I agree Gnome is more elegant, but that’s irrelevant when key fundamentals simply don’t work anymore.
So to get the desktop I like to actually use, I use KDE instead.
Edit: Final release was 2.32 as u/esc correctly writes below.
Last version of gnome 2 was 2.32, I think, not 2.8.
You are right, I just remember it as using 2.8 for an extended period of time. But looking it up, 2.8 was a milestone from 2004, and 2.32 was the final release.
I switched to Linux as my main OS in 2005. So I probably started on 2.8.