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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by danieldk on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:28AM (#19690815)
My experience is the same. I mostly use macOS on the desktop, so I am used to Lo/HiDPI screens to work together. On my Linux workstation, I tried several desktop environments, but GNOME on Wayland was the only environment to nail it 6-12 months ago (there may be improvements in other desktops now). HiDPI worked with Wayland and X11 applications and I could just use both screens with different DPIs, drag windows between them without oddities, etc.

It's a shame that they nailed this, but decided to remove menus, desktop icons, system tray icons, etc. GNOME could have been a great competitor to macOS and Windows, if they actually talked to real-world users. I wish that they had an UX steward like Sun Microsystems back in the days.

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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by bluedino on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:57AM (#19691025)
Yes, GNOME is horrible. So many hacks to get it usable. It's as if they designed it for a tablet or something.
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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by rhinoceraptor on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:54AM (#19691438)
It seems like they're just completely discarding the desktop metaphor like Windows 8 did. Everything in Gnome discourages you from using multiple windows, and there isn't even a desktop anymore without running hacky plugins.

I do like things like window snapping, and miss it in MacOS, but the actual desktop experience is so much better in MacOS than pretty much anything else.

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