(If you know where I stole this from, I love you.)
I like gnome DE, I dislike the arrogance of the project team.
My straw was the login-to-exposΓ© thing.
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I love GNOME but I found the default usage pattern aligned very well for laptops. And I don't mind they only implement finalized Wayland protocols. But Wayland moves so slow!
I use KDE on in my normal desktop because I want VRR and HDR for gaming. I like KDE but its default theme still looks rough around the edges and it has random bugs and kwin crashes when gaming and sometimes on resume.
Both have things I like and things I don't like and I wish I could take the best from both.
I like Cosmic DE a lot because of this. It feels light, efficient, and smooth like KDE. But it feels coherent, consistent, and laptop friendly like Gnome.
... But Cosmic still feels a bit too incomplete for me to daily.
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I prefer the default gnome experience to the default kde experience.
I also prefer the styling of most gnome apps, and actively dislike kde apps styling.
Gnome is less customizable, but customizable enough for what I want.
I'm also biased, because I was using Ubuntu since it came out, up until a few years ago π€·ββοΈ
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GNOME was so great... Then GNOME 3 came out and it feels like it's been designed by a person with severe brain damage.
I think the key is to just not hate on someone else for having a preference for one you don't care for. (And not being an overzealous missionary for your own preference.) It's fun seeing the variety and people geeking out about the little intricacies they love about their favorites
That's just a good approach to life in general.
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I use GNOME on my laptop because it's really nice for touch devices. It has a learning curve, I have to add extensions to do things I expect an OS to do and I'm still not sure what I'm doing, but it's nice.
I like gnome and it's philosophy π¬
There's plenty of "customizability" friendly options out there. I like how gnome isn't afraid to break things to improve
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I tried gnome once at the start of my Linux adventures and I couldn't figure out how to do most stuff as it seems really counter intuitive to me. I tried extensions to fix it and they just didn't work or broke and trying to install the extensions was a problem for me too. Idk it's just seems broken to me in a lot of ways
Then I tried another distro with basic life and it was easy and I didnt need to install anything extra because it was already all there.
Also why the fuck does gnome and Ubuntu have a app drawer take up the whole fucking screen. I'm on a computer not a tablet or phone. I just need a start menu like kde has. Its simple small and easily accessible when other apps are open
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I like Gnome's apps, and I think I would install Gnome on any non-techie user's computer.
But for myself ? I want all the options ! So I use KDE. Probably going to switch to a tiling WM, I'd like my whole desktop experience use tmux shortcuts, basically.
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XFCE erryday.
When I first started using Linux over 20 years ago, I did try Gnome. Then went back to KDE immediately.
From what I have read in those 20+ years, the design philosophy hasn't changed.
I was fine with Gnome before they went v3.
KDE was/is my favourite. I don't play favourites tho. But it's def KDE.
(Xfce being second, but tbf I never gave a fair chance to the rest of them. DEs aren't really a thing that would hugely impact my life, unless they would be too buggy, but afaik we are past that if you aren't on a strict rice diet.)
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I don't love GNOME, but if you use it....whatever. Linux is all about choice and lack of lock-in.
If you want to compile CDE from the 1990s and use it as your DE.....you do you honey boo boo.
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JFC apparently CDE is still around and had a stable release 2 months ago. Holy fucking case-in-point right there.
I myself identify as an equalist . I hate all of them DE equally. Standalone WM is superior (for me).
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on my normal desktop I use the flavor of the day DE, gnome is only used on my 40 inch touchscreen, because its the only one I could imagine being good on a touchscreen
All the JavaScript in gnome make it super icky to me as an ex-webdev, and unusable on hardware that is otherwise perfectly fine with other DEs. From high resource usage, memory leaks, and breaking extensions, I have a hard time believing that their userbase is anyone other than mobile native younger folk who are good at consuming via the iPad launcher paradigm. Just my humble opinion, nothing more.