
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:47:30AM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote:
I prefer the elegant design and centralized vision of the GNOME desktop, but the whininess of the GNOME hatred here never gets old.
When a desktop going from version 2 to 3 throws away everything users are used to, and the developers simply don't care, then it deserves any hate it receives. If they wanted to have a totally new vision (which is perfectly fine to do), they should have started a new project, not hijacked an existing one. Personally what I want a desktop to do is: Let me launch programs (preferably by just typing the name in) Let me resize windows. Let me maximize windows. Let me close windows. Let me alt+tab between the windows. Anything other than that is just extra. Gnome 3 failed at quite a few of those basic things, at least for the first while which was inexcusable. These days I tend to just use xfce. kde does the job too, but tends to be slower and I don't need the extras it adds. -- Len Sorensen