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    [–] luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

    I tried to use linux on a tablet, I've tried GNOME multiple times since it is apparently the best for touchscreen-only devices. This was hell.

    As much as I'd love to be able to like that thing I just can't.

    Zero customisability, everything has to be changed through extensions, but the extension manager isn't even part of GNOME's core and has to be installed separately.

    The settings page is severely lacking so I had to configure everything in .conf files or through CLI directly.

    And the whole thing is as stable as a one-legged chair on top of a unbalanced washing machine.

    KDE extension crashing : "oupsie a part of your desktop crashed and restarted as fast as possible, hope you didn't notice"

    GNOME extension crashing : "go fuck yourself, I burned your whole session to the ground, log back in and pray you weren't doing anything worth saving"

    In the end I customized KDE to look and behave like GNOME, this way around was surprisingly easier than just making GNOME bearable.

    Oh and to the taskbar haters out there : my first computer was running windows 95 so you'll be taking my taskbar from my cold dead hands, only KDE let me fulfill my dream of putting taskbars absolutely everywhere (even got two perpendicular ones on my bottom monitor)