In a land where desktops can be ripped out and replace with ease - what's the point in arguing? GNOME isn't my thing but I'm glad it's an option.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Can you swap out desktop environments in Linux like launchers on android?
Yeah pretty much. Or have multiple installed and pick which to use when you log in
Wait what?! Install several, pick upon login?! Had no idea, that's awesome.
Depends on your login flow. There is a session manager which normally boots up and let's you choose. But you can also configure it to auto login and send you to the Lockscreen of your window manager.
You can also mix login manager, window manager with desktop background managers, wallet managers etc..., in practice you can build your own desktop experience
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My main complaint with how Gnome does stuff is in environments where it is the only option (e.g. RHEL).
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GNOME looks like it is touch friendly, but try to run it on a tablet and it's really fucking not. I had to DL a bunch of tweaks tools to make it useable at all and now the tablet breaks whenever there's a Gnome update that the tweaks weren't designed for.
I run Gnome on Debian on a tablet, and I find it wonderful.
Of course, my only points of comparison, so far, are iOS, Android and Windows tablets. Gnome is (per my own arbitrary last use of each) quite a bit nicer than any of those, at least.
Honestly I'd say the worst part is the osk. They need to treat it a bit more like phosh does. It's sooooo far behind when compared to modern device osks. Sure there's some extensions to help it out, but they don't go far enough to make it decent on a tablet. And it feels incredibly clunky to use with gdm when signing in, where no extension can help it..
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I like gnome personally. It is all about simple inclusive design
I get distracted/overwhelmed fairly easily, so GNOME is a godsend. minimalistic top bar + on demand workspaces to throw my extra windows into = I can actually get stuff done.
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Wh-what? Have you used GNOME before or just mad because they don't have the shitty main menu copied from MS Windows?
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most of the things in gnome extensions should be built in and available from the settings. that being said there's nothing stopping me from just using something else, hence why I use kde.
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I'm going to roll your machine back to KDE4
Hell yeah, Oxygen
As long as I can still customize Gnome with some extensions for improved focus, it'll stay my DE of choice.
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It's a fine DE... But boy making appindicator/KStatus an un-officially-supported extension is dumb
Gnome has more in common with hyprland than it does with tablet interfaces
Fight me fight me fight me fight me
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