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I recently installed Debian with Gnome on a laptop, and the UI is miles and miles better than what it was ~7 years ago. It used to feel old and like a knockoff of Windows XP or something. Now I only want to use Gnome on Linux. Huge credit to the Gnome team for all of these UI improvements they've been making, it's a serious amount of work gone into things.
I recently tried gnome and then untried it with the uninstall button for making stupid fucking design decisions I need to jump through hoops to turn off.
I rented Superman 64 once when I was a kid. Using gnome was like that.
I'd be curious which design decisions you thought were awful and were difficult to turn off? I've always though UIs across all OSes are very inflexible (e.g. on a Mac, you can't change command-tab to alt-tab, and can't cycle same-app windows without a separate keybind), so I'm not usually surprised when things are difficult to disable.
My only negative experience with Gnome was not seeing which apps were open at a glance (need to alt-tab and tile all windows). This is mainly a "what I'm used to" kind of thing though.
Nah their design decisions have been great. Pretty much everything has been based on actual usability studies rather than not rocking the boat and just copying the Win95 UX because that's what people expect.
If you prefer the Win95 paradigm, that's fine. Use another DE, use extensions, or use Windows. But telling everyone else that they're wrong and you're right is just sad.