Re:On the Graying of Gnome
by 29athrowaway on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:29AM
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I think for novices the most friendly experience is Pantheon, the desktop environment shipped with the elementary OS distro.
https://elementary.io/ (you can either donate, or choose to donate $0 and get it for free).
Now with regards to:
> Gnome 3 is where the project shifted from 'user friendly' to 'assume the user is an imbecile.'
I don't think that is what they had in mind. If I recall correctly one of the design motivations for Gnome 3 was removing the excessive distractions found in the numerous graphical elements of most desktop environments and make things a bit more minismalistic.
https://elementary.io/ (you can either donate, or choose to donate $0 and get it for free).
Now with regards to:
> Gnome 3 is where the project shifted from 'user friendly' to 'assume the user is an imbecile.'
I don't think that is what they had in mind. If I recall correctly one of the design motivations for Gnome 3 was removing the excessive distractions found in the numerous graphical elements of most desktop environments and make things a bit more minismalistic.