• graphene@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    18 hours ago

    We should dissolve the GNOME and KDE foundations and all switch to deepin and xfce. Then we might get discourse so stupid it actually kills people.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    Gnome behaves consistently. I want to love kde and have used it since the 3. Days but kwin seems to hate every build I’ve ever done.

  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    346·
    2 days ago

    Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn’t taken over the desktop market.

    CMM.

      • pewpew@feddit.it
        21·
        1 day ago

        Yep it’s GNOME. KDE and other DEs are more familiar to Windows users

        • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          linux is not familiar to windows users though
          a slightly closer UI would not change how many other things are done differently between linux and windows

          it would still not change the perceived difficulty of linux, people thinking you have to use the command line, or windows being preinstalled on everything, or some apps not supporting linux, or people not knowing WINE exists, or the many bugs i have encountered, or there being so many distros to choose and people getting confused, or people not having the time to switch to linux, or not caring about their computer, or people being afraid of change, or the many other things i have not listed

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        51·
        1 day ago

        Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?

        Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.

    • abra_k@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 days ago

      Idk I gave it to my sister and she had 0 complaints. I don’t think it’s perfect, but a sane default choice.

  • replicat@lemmy.world
    277·
    2 days ago

    I’m the guy who actually likes and uses gnome as my daily driver.

    It’s for people who want to spend less time complaining about desktop environments and more time actually doing stuff.

  • wylinka@szmer.info
    81·
    2 days ago

    Pretty art, but this meme is really getting boring. I think people are just regurgitating “GNOME bad” because they heard it from some tech youtuber instead of actually trying GNOME for themselves. IMHO GNOME is awesome. It’s a bit different, but very comfortable when you get used to it. And definitely reliable.

    I often see people using some h4x0r i3wm setup scrolling through workspaces and windows for literal minutes trying to find some app they were using earlier, while on GNOME you can just see everything spatially organised in the activities view. They think they have it “tailored for their needs”, but they end up with an unmanageable config file with bits copy-pasted from the internet that is getting harder to understand over time and keeps breaking. I know it from my own experience too, I got tired of it and came back to GNOME.

    But if you wanna go down that route, GNOME is also highly customisable. There’s lots of extensions that let you change every aspect of it. If you know some JavaScript, you can make your own, there’s a decent community and documentation. Things like Niri or Cosmic actually started off as GNOME extensions.

    • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
      2·
      2 days ago

      Customisable isn’t an adjective I’d use for gnome. It might be more hackable but UX customization is broken in Gnome.

      • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        13 minutes ago

        I think that’s the perfect choice of distinguishing phrases.

        KDE is very customizable (perhaps too much for more casual users) while Gnome is hackable with the extension system - but it will always feel a little more tacked on, be a little less stable, prone to upgrade breakage, etc.

        As a corollary to OPs argument, there’s also a reason Niri and Cosmos didn’t stay Gnome extensions.

        (But at the end of the day, if the Gnome experience niche works for you, more power to you.)

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 days ago

      Nah, it’s ok, if you fit exactly into the niche Gnome envisions. Which i don’t.
      Also, fuck anything outside Gnome using their software.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      Pokemon X/Y fire type starter. Starts as a Fennekin, becomes a Braixen, then final evo is Delphox, Fire/Psychic type.