• Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Gnome behaves consistently. I want to love kde and have used it since the 3. Days but kwin seems to hate every build I’ve ever done.

  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    479·
    1 day ago

    Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn’t taken over the desktop market.

    CMM.

        • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          linux is not familiar to windows users though
          a slightly closer UI would not change how many other things are done differently between linux and windows

          it would still not change the perceived difficulty of linux, people thinking you have to use the command line, or windows being preinstalled on everything, or some apps not supporting linux, or people not knowing WINE exists, or the many bugs i have encountered, or there being so many distros to choose and people getting confused, or people not having the time to switch to linux, or not caring about their computer, or people being afraid of change, or the many other things i have not listed

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        61·
        13 hours ago

        Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?

        Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        4·
        17 hours ago

        None of the problems in KDE and XFCE are caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user

        • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          none of my problems with gnome were caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user

          the maintainers dont have to intentionally do something for it to be a problem that would make people not want to use linux

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      321·
      1 day ago

      Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        21 hours ago

        Yah, I’m not even being sarcastic. I think it’s over-simplistic interface and disinterest in keeping extensions working over the years has been a major pissoff of people that stuck their nose in and then noped out. Maybe former Mac users could handle it since they’re used to being herded around, but expecting Windows users to come into that bullshit and feel at home was a big mistake.

      • VonReposti@feddit.dk
        8·
        1 day ago

        I loved it when I first encountered it. It was simple, elegant, and easy to use. Over time though, things got bad. I relied on an extension to show the taskbar on all monitors as well as the “Other locations” tab in the file manager to see disk usage plus some other things but these two broke the camel’s back. Every upgrade the extension stopped working for a few months, but at least I could delay upgrading for a bit. That was until the extension maintainer went AWOL, so no update was made for at least a year.

        The “other locations” tab showed disk usage just a click away from my usual workflows. As someone who has a habit of making high utilisation of my disks, keeping an eye on disk usage was required. That was until Gnome decided we were too good for such an easy location so now the only place to see disk usage is in the disk usage analyzer that 1) is rarely used 2) takes a while to start up while it’s scanning the entire disk. My habit of checking disk usage thus died. Until I had to upgrade to the new distro version. And it turned out I didn’t have enough storage left to carry out the installation so my laptop bricked itself halfway. I was lucky that I could boot with a rescue image to clear some space and continue the upgrade but the first thing I did when it was finished was to install Plasma and kill Gnome.

        • locahosr443@lemmy.world
          41·
          24 hours ago

          I bought a mac mini to run some cad software as everything else I have is Linux KDE. Hated it so much after a few months I bought a laptop and win 10 IoT LTSC license… Gnome is the only desktop environment that pissed me off as much as macOS, and that’s after giving it a good try recently in Ubuntu Pro while working out a new auto roll out solution for work.

    • abra_k@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Idk I gave it to my sister and she had 0 complaints. I don’t think it’s perfect, but a sane default choice.

  • replicat@lemmy.world
    338·
    1 day ago

    I’m the guy who actually likes and uses gnome as my daily driver.

    It’s for people who want to spend less time complaining about desktop environments and more time actually doing stuff.

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    29·
    1 day ago

    Oh, you didn’t want to be disoriented by all the apps flying apart in every direction when ever you wanted to use the task bar? Oh you wanted a system tray not hidden behind a menu?

    Oh, well you can just use a plug in … just pray we don’t update and break all the plug ins anytime soon.

  • wylinka@szmer.info
    93·
    1 day ago

    Pretty art, but this meme is really getting boring. I think people are just regurgitating “GNOME bad” because they heard it from some tech youtuber instead of actually trying GNOME for themselves. IMHO GNOME is awesome. It’s a bit different, but very comfortable when you get used to it. And definitely reliable.

    I often see people using some h4x0r i3wm setup scrolling through workspaces and windows for literal minutes trying to find some app they were using earlier, while on GNOME you can just see everything spatially organised in the activities view. They think they have it “tailored for their needs”, but they end up with an unmanageable config file with bits copy-pasted from the internet that is getting harder to understand over time and keeps breaking. I know it from my own experience too, I got tired of it and came back to GNOME.

    But if you wanna go down that route, GNOME is also highly customisable. There’s lots of extensions that let you change every aspect of it. If you know some JavaScript, you can make your own, there’s a decent community and documentation. Things like Niri or Cosmic actually started off as GNOME extensions.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      6·
      1 day ago

      Nah, it’s ok, if you fit exactly into the niche Gnome envisions. Which i don’t.
      Also, fuck anything outside Gnome using their software.

    • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
      3·
      22 hours ago

      Customisable isn’t an adjective I’d use for gnome. It might be more hackable but UX customization is broken in Gnome.