I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it’s Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)…etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the “Flagship Manjaro version”. I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

  • overload@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    4 days ago

    Gnome has the apple philosophy that the user conforms to technology, not the other way around.

    • lumony@lemmings.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Apple actually had good visionaries and design decisions, sometimes.

      Never been a fan of apple’s hardware decisions, but their software is routinely state-of-the-art even to this day.

      They value treating the user like a human instead of a programmer. GNOME values removing as many features as possible to make their jobs easier.

    • njordomir@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      No shade to Gnome, because there is a place for them in the ecosystem, but this is why I moved from Gnome 2 to KDE (with a few stops along the way). One size will not fit all.

      • overload@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        3 days ago

        Oh yeah for sure. I think if Gnome works for people they should use it. I’m not stoked on the situation of Gnome Extensions being needed for some pretty basic customisations, adding instability to the DE though.

        • easily3667English
          1·
          3 days ago

          Plenty of people just don’t have the brain capacity to read settings or multitask and that’s fine. If that works for them, good for them.