• Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Nah both Gnome and KDE are incredible and I say that as someone whos been using Linux since early 00s

  • dkc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve found GNOME a pleasure to use. From my experience many folks that use Linux like to tinker with their computers. Even those new to Linux see a world of possibilities. GNOME doesn’t really embrace this tinkerer philosophy. They have an opinion on what at desktop manager should be and they’re constantly working towards that vision.

    When I introduce GNOME to new people I explain to them some the project goals, design elements and how it’s intended to be used. Then I tell them that GNOME is opinionated on how things should behave and look, and if you try to force GNOME to be something it’s not you’ll probably end up using poorly documented or unsupported third-party extensions that break things. Generally the advice is, GNOME is great, but not for everyone, take the time to learn the GNOME way of doing things and if you don’t like it you’re better off switching to another desktop environment than trying to change GNOME.

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      If it’s not for everyone it should not be the default for many distributions, and other DEs should be recommended for beginners then.
      I think the design philosophy of “you have to adapt to the software” is harmful. Software should adapt to you and disappear out of your way for common tasks. Something Gnome leadership fails to understand.

      • dkc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I’ve been teaching Linux to a lot of high-school age kids this year. I picked Fedora Workstation for us to experiment with. It of course, uses GNOME. Like I mentioned in the above post I talked to them for 5-10 minutes about GNOME design and how it’s supposed to be used. One thing that surprised me is how much the younger generation found GNOME intuitive as soon as they learned to use the Super key. Many have spent more time on iOS than they have Windows. So some of the common pain points for us older folks, like not having a task bar, preferring each “App” to be full a screen and switching between them felt very natural for the kids. Very iOS like.

        You can of course have your different opinion on if this is good or bad or if GNOME shouldn’t be the default on most distro.

        Perhaps GNOME is a good default for distro because it’s similar to the interfaces young people are growing up with.