Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by philliphaydon on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:01AM (#31824049)

I don’t understand GNOME. I try it but I feel like I’m fighting it to use my computer. Then I start looking for extensions.

KDE Plasma on the other hand I can just install. Visually be annoyed. But it just works. And I don’t need to install a bunch of extensions.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by hollerith on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:20AM (#31824231)

>Visually be annoyed.

The visual design of KDE was annoying and distracting to me, too. (Ditto the other non-GNOME DEs I tried.) If I had continued to use it instead of abandoning it after 5 minutes, it would've become much less annoying, but some of the annoyance would've persisted indefinitely.

So I've been using GNOME for the last year and a half. In many ways it is worse than the GUI of MacOS or Windows, but it looks great.

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