• yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    I flirted with gnome this install around. I’m so lazy to reinstall yet again to get back to my previous plasma. Seriously Linux is a way better experience these days, I wish those that could would just give it an honest shot. The learning curve isn’t too bad once you understand a couple things.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      Gnome is awful. It’s almost as bad as windows. Basically 0 customization, and getting worse every release. I can’t even fathom how you would voluntarily switch from plasma to gnome and not immediately switch back

      • randomname01@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        It just works for me, and I prefer the look to that of KDE. Like, fair enough if it’s not your cup of tea, but your basic point here is “I don’t like the workflow and I highly value customisation”, and you then act like your subjective preferences are fact.

        You can customise Gnome quite a lot, btw. I’m not even saying you should give it another shot, but please just don’t act like your personal preferences are objectively accurate.

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I dislike how they took away minimizing windows. Please help me understand the lack of system tray. I have apps that go there and I have a plugin to bring it back and all the icons have a black background which is super annoying.

          Discord, telegram, signal, flameshot, and others are in there and I don’t understand how gnome intends me to access them otherwise when they’re “closed” in the background.

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          I’m not even saying you should give it another shot, but please just don’t act like your personal preferences are objectively accurate.

          I’m forced to use it at work if I want to use linux. You really can’t, and to customize even a little bit you need lots of extra tools and maybe even access the css. For example, https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ is the only way to get a usable task bar. And calling it usable is being very generous.

          The gnome devs are extremely opinionated in removing configuration and features. It’s honestly disgusting

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          KDE is amazing and you should give it a try. It’s unbelievably customizable, and is so much more seamless. Having to use gnome is almost as frustrating as having to use macos. And in a lot of the same ways. Like, trying to get a usable task bar in gnome is infuriating.

          • FreeSoftware Ganoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            usable task bar in gnome

            Just one easy to enable extension for this, but it should definitely be the default. Overall I like the stock GNOME experience and find it clean. When you get the hang of GNOME it starts to make sense. Super key is the answer.

            KDE is obviously more powerful, but I don’t like customizing my desktop very much so that point is moot for me.

            I’m going full KDE for the next 6 months, you should try GNOME for a bit, give it a solid chance with extensions.