• replicat@lemmy.world
    368·
    7 days 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
    27·
    7 days 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.

    • eleefece@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      7 days ago

      It’s a Pokémon, and in the game, the creatures you don’t intent to use are stored in a PC

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      7 days ago

      Pokemon X/Y fire type starter. Starts as a Fennekin, becomes a Braixen, then final evo is Delphox, Fire/Psychic type.

  • wylinka@szmer.info
    122·
    6 days 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
      5·
      6 days 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·
      6 days ago

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

      • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        I think that’s the perfect choice of distinguishing phrases.

        KDE is very customizable (perhaps too much for more casual users) while Gnome is hackable with the extension system - but it will always feel a little more tacked on, be a little less stable, prone to upgrade breakage, etc.

        As a corollary to OPs argument, there’s also a reason Niri and Cosmos didn’t stay Gnome extensions.

        (But at the end of the day, if the Gnome experience niche works for you, more power to you.)

        • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
          2·
          4 days ago

          more power to you

          Or as Gnome devs say: you don’t need that power. Use a config file or install extensions or install gnome tweaks to increase that power

  • graphene@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    5 days ago

    We should dissolve the GNOME and KDE foundations and all switch to deepin and xfce. Then we might get discourse so stupid it actually kills people.

  • brzrd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    7 days ago

    Coming from MacOS into Linux and landing on Debian/Gnome encouraged me into the world of keyboard-driven navigation.

    I got into customising keybindings and moved to a split programmable mech keyboard not too long after. Three years ago I made the switch to Sway and now on Niri (all transitions switched off) on my laptop. My desktop workstation still is on Gnome and I switch between the two machines (with full keyboard-driven navigation) seamlessly.

    Yes, some extensions do break on updates but I use extensions very minimally and they get patched relatively quickly. For the experience Gnome provides, I dont mind the couple of days that “blur my shell” is broken. The DE remains stable and the keyboard-driven workflow is fast.

    Now that I daily drive a WM (on my laptop) I am thankful I started on Gnome upon landing in Linux. It still remains the best keyboard-driven DE out of the box for Linux first-timers. Perhaps Cosmic will be the other DE in a few years.

    I hope Gnome sticks to its phislosphy as it truly provides something unique, stable and a great entry point into the world of keyboard-driven workflows out of the box.

    • radamant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      I don’t really see how GNOME is any more keyboard focused than, say, KDE. If anything, other DEs give you much more freedom for a keyboard workflow.

      • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        I think their point was that MacOS -> GNOME was a another transition than a diffetent desktop environment would have been, which led to them naturally discovering more keyboard-oriented workflows. Not that GNOME is any more keyboard oriented than other DEs.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      5·
      7 days ago

      I took sort of the opposite route. Lifelong windows user. Tried Linux out several times from like 08-12/13. Moved to Linux full time, and landed on Fedora, and absolutely loved it because of Gnome. It was different enough from Windows that it felt like a fresh start. Have been daily driving it since then.

      Two weeks ago I got my first ever apple device because I wanted something genuine reliable for school that didn’t have any weird hiccups, and I just could not stomach the idea of going back to windows. It’s similar enough to gnome that I am adjusting pretty well. Still have fedora on my desktop and backup laptop, though

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    Lack of desktop shortcuts by default: pretty much why I always switch to cinnamon.

    That said, it’s not inherently bad, it’s just not inherently good.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    5 days 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.