I'm going to roll your machine back to KDE4
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Hell yeah, Oxygen
Both Gnome and KDE are 100x better than win or macOS. I use KDE for me but I install Gnome on my familly 's stuff.
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They need to stop messing with things that work. Feature creep is how Windows XP turned into the dumpster fire it is today. Does the interface have a working file explorer? Does it support add-ons? Does it have a file search? You're done.
"But . . . "
You're DONE.
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As long as I can still customize Gnome with some extensions for improved focus, it'll stay my DE of choice.
I did that for a while, but ultimately got too frustrated due to a few things:
- Having to explore extensions in the first place for fairly basic functionally that I would have expected gnome to naturally implement
- Every update would break extensions, and I'd have to wait for the extension author to update it, and about a fourth of the time the extension was abandoned and I would just have to go without or search for a similar.
- At their best I always felt a lot of the extensions were having to settle for a lesser experience due to limitations of the extension mechanism.
Ultimately, I found that experience I was trying to get to that gnome never would normally support and would evaporate on updates and never be quite right anyway was just a natural featureset of Plasma. So I just do that and haven't had to sweat updates nearly as much as when I kept trying to make a go of it with gnome shell. I kept giving it a shot because of my gnome 2 experience (admittedly augmented by compiz), but gnome 3/mutter have not been a good fit for me.
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I feel like the majority of DE developers are just back-end developers, which like, of course that's not going to be a great user experience lol
I actually like Gnome. I like the way it looks and I have no problems with UX. I also don't feel the need to use any extensions.
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It's a fine DE... But boy making appindicator/KStatus an un-officially-supported extension is dumb
I love GNOME and hate KDE
When i switched from Windows to Linux, i wanted actual changes, not just a slightly different look
Unrelated question: does anyone know how to show the time in fullscreen or merge the bar with window close button with the top bar with the screen so there arent 2 different bars in GNOME?
TBH both gnome and KDE are broken piles of crap. Cinnamon and XFCE are the only good DE's left out there (at least for xorg, idk about wayland).
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Old gnome is nostalgic to me, because my first venture into Linux was Fedora Core 4. I was still using Win98 at the time, and gnome 2.10 felt so modern in comparison, with rounded corners and soft gradients.
Coming back to Linux after having not touched it for a very, very long time I tried gnome again and I just do not like it at all. It's weird looking. Maybe too modern for me, i don't know.
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Gnome has more in common with hyprland than it does with tablet interfaces
Fight me fight me fight me fight me
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