Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment

Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by bittermang on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:32AM (#14956329)

I feel this way a lot about Gnome, and even Ubuntu's attempt at "Unity".

It wants to be Mac. It wants to be Windows. In the end it's like all of the worst parts of both, made in to a mutant of dis-congeniality. They want the familiarity and user experience of both, and in the end capture neither.

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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by digi_owl on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:49PM (#14992466)

I think it is more about the underlying "paternalism" than any specific UI/UX design.

Damn it, i have seen a comment from a prominent Gnome developer basically stating that users are idiots. This based on some usability testing that was done back in the day, apparently.

So expect more and more out of Gnome, and by extension Freedesktop, to be about putting users in padded cells...

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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by boyce on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:55AM (#14957293)

Unity at least had an exciting purpose behind it. I have no idea what the Gnome team were thinking when they designed 3.

I actually quite like some of the ideas in Deepin though

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