Re:Gnome Linux – A Complete Disaster?
by phendrenad2 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:39PM
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I don't think that Linus is right here, exactly. "We know best" isn't a problem, as long as you (A) focus on a narrow set of users and (B) actually _DO_ know what's best for those users.
GNOME fails on both of those points.
Re:Gnome Linux – A Complete Disaster?
by michelledepeil on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:28PM
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I don't know if it's possible, but if you want a windows experience you might want to try cinnamon. If you're feeling lucky and don't mind a bit of customization, XFCE can do it too.
Yep. Sadly a more and more pervasive idea among software developers and especially interface designers though.
Recently I've been testing the waters of Linux Desktop more than usual because I can foresee a day in the near future where Microsoft has fucked up Windows to the point that it is the lesser piece-of-shit. So far, I'm finding Fedora Silverblue to be pretty good at giving me the kind of system I want, but it of course uses GNOME. It feels like it desperately wants to be a running on a phone and I have to install extensions just to make it bearable. And don't get me started on how useless GNOME Software is.
I tried Kinoite first, of course, because KDE doesn't despise its own userbase, but sadly it had too many problems. I suppose I could just install KDE on top of Silverblue though.
Edit: Apparently there was a miscommunication. I am not looking for DE or distro suggestions.