now I know why

I gonna be absolutely honest,gnome is fantastic for laptops.

They seem to be at war with the minimize and maximize buttons.

Don't even try to say GNOME is a touch screen design. I've used it with a touchscreen, it's just bad design. What bothers me the most is that is close to being good if not for a couple of stupid decisions like having no system tray.

I absolutely love (slightly tweaked) gnome. Fight me if you want, I'm sick in bed and have time.

i like gnome, it looks good, is smooth, and does it's job

Gnome is not really touch-centric, it's more keyboard-crentric. Sure, the activity overview is great for touch. It's even greater for the keyboard though. And I don't like using the mouse a lot anyway

Oh! A Gnome hate thread!

I'm in!

FUCKING GNOME>!!!111!!!ELEVEN

They need to stop messing with things that work. Feature creep is how Windows XP turned into the dumpster fire it is today. Does the interface have a working file explorer? Does it support add-ons? Does it have a file search? You're done.

"But . . . "

You're DONE.

As long as I can still customize Gnome with some extensions for improved focus, it'll stay my DE of choice.

I love GNOME and hate KDE

When i switched from Windows to Linux, i wanted actual changes, not just a slightly different look

Unrelated question: does anyone know how to show the time in fullscreen or merge the bar with window close button with the top bar with the screen so there arent 2 different bars in GNOME?

It's a fine DE... But boy making appindicator/KStatus an un-officially-supported extension is dumb

I feel like the majority of DE developers are just back-end developers, which like, of course that's not going to be a great user experience lol

Old gnome is nostalgic to me, because my first venture into Linux was Fedora Core 4. I was still using Win98 at the time, and gnome 2.10 felt so modern in comparison, with rounded corners and soft gradients.

Coming back to Linux after having not touched it for a very, very long time I tried gnome again and I just do not like it at all. It's weird looking. Maybe too modern for me, i don't know.

Both Gnome and KDE are 100x better than win or macOS. I use KDE for me but I install Gnome on my familly 's stuff.

More like forcing no customization

GNOME peaked with 2 which is why I prefer MATE.

I'm happy with xfce4.

Gnome has the best kbm experience out of the box

But this meme doesn’t make sense because Gnome is also really high in the accessibility community

nah gnome is great with ms+kb. as well as touch.

get outta here with this 2011 meme.

my sway setup is cozy, i've never used GNOME so i wouldn't know if it suits my needs. i dislike client-side decorations, so i avoid GNOME apps.

I prefer gnome. It feels like Linux to me. I don’t want a windows clone like every other DE

Every time I try kde I get pissed off that every time I make a settings change I have to hit apply as well. Gnome I just change the settings and close the window. Plus I can never figure out how to switch workspaces. I like super+scroll wheel or swiping on a laptop.

It's always wild to me how these hateposts climb to the top, when all the complaints can be boiled down to "I don't like the design choices"

Have you tried... Just not using it? No one's forcing you to use it. Have you tried using a different DE instead?

How did the maker of that comic fuck up the very first sentence that badly? It makes no sense. The closest I can guess is it should be "forcing touch design on desktop users" and not "in", but even that is idiotic grammar. It's like they don't know what any of the words really mean.

Lets not be deliberately obtuse, you're clearly meant to be using it with your feet.

GNOME is more keyboard-focused than KDE. It just also happens to have much better touch support.

Get this meme to /linuxsucks where it belongs.

Gnome does some questionable things, and some are just personal preference, but there is at least one thing that they do that makes zero sense regardless of how you use your system...

The AppIndicator extension SHOULD be default. There is no reason for it to be an extension other than pure stubbornness. There are applications that literally require it in order to function at all.

In a land where desktops can be ripped out and replace with ease - what's the point in arguing? GNOME isn't my thing but I'm glad it's an option.

GNOME looks like it is touch friendly, but try to run it on a tablet and it's really fucking not. I had to DL a bunch of tweaks tools to make it useable at all and now the tablet breaks whenever there's a Gnome update that the tweaks weren't designed for.

I like gnome personally. It is all about simple inclusive design

Wh-what? Have you used GNOME before or just mad because they don't have the shitty main menu copied from MS Windows?

I thought it was going to be a joke about Windows 8

most of the things in gnome extensions should be built in and available from the settings. that being said there's nothing stopping me from just using something else, hence why I use kde.

I'm going to roll your machine back to KDE4

Gnome has more in common with hyprland than it does with tablet interfaces

Fight me fight me fight me fight me

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