Yeah I’m tired of the GNOME hate so I checked out pretty quick and here’s a rant.
I basically, I want 2 things.
A WM that just works with modern interfaces.
A DE that disapears 99% of the time when I’m actually using my computer and shows me just enough to get to my next task when I ask.
GNOME does this. In my opinion KDE doesn’t.
If the process of making your prettiest UI is the thing you’re using your computer for then KDE seems optimized for you but that’s not me.
I don’t want to see the UI. I don’t want to spend time messing with the UI. I want to make it small and black the first time I log in. Maybe change a keybind. Then I want to split screen a terminal and a browser and get to work.
This is GNOME. It’s fine. Stop crapping on people who like that and
And before you asked, I daily drove KDE for several years like a decade ago but got tired of fighting with it. I tried KDE again late last year and it’s gotten a lot better and I’m sure someone committed enough could trim it down the way I want. I tried a couple times and to its credit, I almost got there before getting hidden widgets or broken widgets that caused me to wipe everything and start over. I used to crash the widget manager regularly so it seemed better. But it felt slower and I never was really happy with it so… Not worth the effort.
Gnome with paperwm is goated. The best DE is the one I don’t think about where everything is always “there”. All I ever really want is a bunch of windows in an arbitrary non-overlapping arrangement and some energy/bluetooth/network gizmos. I do not want to use menus. Ever.
Yeah I’m tired of the GNOME hate so I checked out pretty quick and here’s a rant.
I basically, I want 2 things.
GNOME does this. In my opinion KDE doesn’t.
If the process of making your prettiest UI is the thing you’re using your computer for then KDE seems optimized for you but that’s not me.
I don’t want to see the UI. I don’t want to spend time messing with the UI. I want to make it small and black the first time I log in. Maybe change a keybind. Then I want to split screen a terminal and a browser and get to work.
This is GNOME. It’s fine. Stop crapping on people who like that and
And before you asked, I daily drove KDE for several years like a decade ago but got tired of fighting with it. I tried KDE again late last year and it’s gotten a lot better and I’m sure someone committed enough could trim it down the way I want. I tried a couple times and to its credit, I almost got there before getting hidden widgets or broken widgets that caused me to wipe everything and start over. I used to crash the widget manager regularly so it seemed better. But it felt slower and I never was really happy with it so… Not worth the effort.
GNOME is one of the most common desktops used, don’t let loud users decide what you can and can’t enjoy. By the way, I hate GNOME.
Gnome with paperwm is goated. The best DE is the one I don’t think about where everything is always “there”. All I ever really want is a bunch of windows in an arbitrary non-overlapping arrangement and some energy/bluetooth/network gizmos. I do not want to use menus. Ever.