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I have a System76 laptop, but I don't like Pop!_OS. Maybe it's just because I don't like GNOME.
Probably. It's just gnome with a theme and some extensions.
GNOME 2 was great. So great that it lives on today as MATE. But I just can't get used to current GNOME at all and can't understand why KDE Plasma isn't popular.
What do you mean it isn't popular? I was under the impression that KDE was roughly as used as GNOME, maybe a little less since it's not the default in as many distros. As for why current GNOME is popular, my guess it's mostly momentum (since GNOME was already popular) but it being a very clean and polished desktop probably helps as well.
It always seems like for the last decade or so, Linux fans have been all about GNOME or the tiling window managers. There aren't really any distros I'm aware of other than KDE Neon that ship KDE as the default anymore, and some of the most popular distros, like Mint and Pop!_OS, don't even offer a KDE flavor at all.
GNOME just didn't feel right to me at all since GNOME 3. I can't get used to it.
I like the dash in gnome and don’t like the bar in plasma
It's just that the majority prefers a certain style. Gnome 3 has big borders, spacy frames etc. If you hate that, you are not going to enjoy it. :)
KDE also, same modern style.
My issue with GNOME is that it seems like it's trying to be a weird hybrid of a tablet and desktop interface, and you have to install all these extensions if you want to change any of it.
Isn't cosmic going to be its own DE separate from gnome?
Yep cosmic is it's own thing. They have Wayland support etc now, it's going really quickly. I think we will see some betas before end of year.