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Truly excellent GNOME slander. Who made this?

somone needs to replace gnome with windows 11 in that meme lmao.

Edit: it has been done:

I went from GNOME on Ubuntu, to KDE on Manjaro, to XFCE on Manjaro, and finally i3 on Arch.

GNOME was sluggish and not customisable.
KDE had graphical glitches everywhere that made navigating interfaces annoying sometimes

On XFCE, I actually didn't find that many issues. I just stopped using Manjaro and switched to i3 when doing so.

That these DEs are a bloat in modern Linux computers?

GTK is fine by me. Qt on the other hand, is BIG. And now with Qt6 out, and some older apps aren't migrated to it yet, I have both Qt5 AND Qt6 installed on my computer. It's a shitshow.

Dolphin sometimes takes 2-5 seconds to open on my gaming PC, whereas Nautilus (Gnome Files) is usually done before I’ve even let go of the click.

You might need to look into this more.

It opens instantly on my gaming desktop, Microsoft Surface 7 Pro, and ASUS ROG Strix

It is easy to go fast if you have no features.

Hmm, Dolphin takes about 0.5 seconds on my laptop. Might be that worth debugging on your system, even if it is some bug that your specific system triggers.

Not wild to me. Code is written by people, people who engage in organizational politics. No "base" created by people, digital or otherwise, will be free of such influences.

If you don't know:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law

I ran gnome for about a decade. I really didn't like how a lot of bits and pieces of it worked so I went and found all of the plugins and religiously installed and updated them. Updates what happened, crab would break, I'd just have to deal.

At some point I tried KDE. And it literally did everything that I was doing to gnome through plugins out of the box.

I'm all about configurability but I'm also a pretty big fan of not having to fuck with it because it already does what I want out of the box.

I use Cinnamon but Gnome would be my second choice. I want to like Plasma, but every time I've used it there's some glaring bug. Last I checked (few months back) font scaling caused fonts to look like absolute garbage. I found the bug online, tried all the "fixes", no bueno.

I'm not going without scaling on a 14" 1080p screen.

Cinnamon and Gnome on the other hand: accessibility > large text. Easy. (Higher scaling factors can be found in font settings if needed).

What is happening to GNOME is truly one of the biggest fumbles in OSS. They could have just continued improving things, but instead choose the path of most resistance, refused to commit to any logical strategies for further improvement, and are now stuck in a loop of nothing getting done

Sounds like something a goddamn GNOME user would say 😠

I mean can you really blame people? The developers have kind of gone out of their way to try and piss off literally everyone. And any attempt at criticism is called bullying and shut down

GNOME has been going downhill since version 3. I used to be a diehard GNOME fan, but nowadays KDE is simply better in so many ways.

Gnome: We lock down everything since youre too wtupid to handle womputers Also gnome: "oh you want right click-create file? We can't think of a more streamlined solution than navigating to the folder you already have open in nautilus using terminal, making an empty file with a terminal text editor and googling the command to save and exit empty file. Intuitive is our MO"

I love gnome workflow and simplicity but it is too locked down in nonsensical ways and it is too broken too often.

I liked gnome for its minimalistic UI. I then realized i3 does that better :D