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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by rufugee on Friday April 18, 2014 @09:10AM (#7608998)
Every point you make except, to my knowledge, the last, is easily fixable via the gnome tweak tool or extensions. I found the same things to be frustrating when I switched to gnome, but I've been able to tweak it to the point that I now find it to be a productive work environment. That said, I've used gnome, unity, cinammon, xfce, mate and KDE, and have found each to be good in its own way and frustrating in others.

I love the fact that I can choose between many great options.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by glesica on Friday April 18, 2014 @11:16AM (#7609490)
"...tweak tool or extensions."

To me, this is the problem. I don't want to rely on extensions that will potentially break when Gnome updates or be abandoned when their developers move on to other things. I also don't want to be forced to spend hours fiddling with settings in order to get something that isn't completely broken. I just want my stuff to work.

I also find the graphical nonsense in Gnome 3 and KDE 4 nauseating. They make for some sexy Youtube videos (like Compiz when it first came out) but for day-to-day use I find them awful (and shockingly buggy, but that's another debate).

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by sandGorgon on Friday April 18, 2014 @02:48PM (#7610617)
actually the extensions system in gnome is kind of magical. You go to extensions.gnome.org using Firefox and click a button and suddenly your alt-tab behavior has changed. It is awesome - I think the phrase "extensions" has come to connote "complications" ... but is not the case in Gnome.

I'm actually impressed at how they built a javascript API to be able to mess with core UX !

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by rufugee on Friday April 18, 2014 @02:05PM (#7610396)
It took me all of 10 minutes to get it working the way I like. And the extensions are simple javascript....easy to hack if you need to. I get what you're saying, but I think you're overstating things a bit...probably because you just haven't tried it.
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