cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43631736
Gnome Slander Rules
Get in the fucking PC braixen.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Gnome is quite good with dash-to-dock and the system tray plugins, but it does kinda suck both of those need to be plugins.
Ew, Gnome.
We should dissolve the GNOME and KDE foundations and all switch to deepin and xfce. Then we might get discourse so stupid it actually kills people.
Too complicated, ice those two and stick to iceWM
Gnome behaves consistently. I want to love kde and have used it since the 3. Days but kwin seems to hate every build I've ever done.
When Gnome 3 first came out, it was comically unusable, but now a lot of the big issues have been fixed and I find it only mildly idiosyncratic. I like the KDE user experience more but I also think KDE is much buggier. I switched to gnome last year after getting tired of dealing with my desktop freezing/crashing and it's been pretty smooth sailing. My main complaints are:
- Switching applications instead of windows on alt-tab (has any computer user ever wanted this?)
- Modal dialogues have window decorations that inexplicably move the parent window when dragged
- Typing in Files starts searching instead of navigating to a file/directory with the typed name
- Opening an archive extracts it automatically instead of looking inside
The default gnome applications are also quite inferior to their KDE counterparts (Dolphin is leagues ahead of Files, Kate is much better than Gnome's text editor). But I guess you could install dolphin on gnome if you really wanted, so I won't hold that against the DE itself.
Points 2 and 4 drive me nuts. For 2 in particular there must be some rationale, but the amount of times I've needed to see something behind the dialog, to have to cancel after having navigated the filesystem... Just bonkers.
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Beer snobs by any other name run KDE.