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    [–] jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    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.

    [–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

    I got to take this baby from 999 to 1K

    [–] bryndos@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

    KDE: "I just blue myself"

    [–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

    GNOME feels great to use based on the 10 seconds I used it for.

    But I don't like GNOME for many reasons.

    [–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Laughing in Sway

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    [–] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    These two statements do not contradict themselves.

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    [–] twinnie@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If GNOME did a standard start menu style interface in 99% sure I’d be using that.

    [–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

    Gnome with Arcmenu is what you are looking for. It's probably worth checking out Zorin OS as it is Gnome based and has templates for star menu.

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    [–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 2 months ago

    So today I made a VM of Debian that has all the DE’s as a matter of experiment to try them all out back to back to get an idea of what each one feels like. And right out of the gate gnome feels, a bit too abstract? You don’t get the sense that one screen is the default homescreen over another.

    It looks nice but it feels weirdly organised. (Which I’m sure I could get used too, but you know preferences)

    [–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I don’t like it when people pronounce it with a hard G

    [–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Which one’s the hard g? If that’s the one that sounds like j or “g as in giraffe”, then I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Jnome? Doesn’t really roll off the tongue very well.

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I suspect that @TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works really meant to say "with a non-silent 'G'".

    The word is typically pronounced ("There are gnomes in the forest!") with a silent 'g'.

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    [–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

    But it's there!

    [–] penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 4 points 2 months ago

    This is the main reason I stopped using it

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    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

    I'm a gnomer.

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