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Same place as the famous banana quote! How much could a banana cost, Michael? $10?
I've always had deep suspicion of GNOME because of de Icaza's involvement and the pretexts with which the project was started. Knowing that de Icaza ended up at Microsoft and is now a huge fan of MacOS and Apple confirmed my suspicions. Lucille Bluth is right, there I said it. π
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
Gnome has one great purpose and that is for tablets. Not a fan of their whole ethos though
Gnome has one great purpose and that is for tablets.
Doesn't work well on tablets, though.
It may not be a perfect environment, but you know - DEs don't come with a handbook!
So today I made a VM of Debian that has all the DEβs 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 donβt get the sense that one screen is the default homescreen over another.
It looks nice but it feels weirdly organised. (Which Iβm sure I could get used too, but you know preferences)
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.)
I went the complete opposite. Hated KDE, loved gnome. Now KDE is my go to.
I myself identify as an equalist . I hate all of them DE equally. Standalone WM is superior (for me).
On Wayland, it's really a compositor rather than an X11-style window manager. Has to handle more tasks.
Though it looks like the River compositor is trying to reintroduce the window manager paradigm.
On Wayland, it's really a compositor rather than an X11-style window manager.
On Wayland it's both the window manager and compositor (compositing window manager).
In X11, you have to bring your own compositor or not use one. River is trying to separate it like in x11 but it's a compositor only. You have to bring a separate wm. And from what I understand, in Wayland it won't work without a compositor (but I could be wrong on that one).