I made this post because I really like the design of GNOME, and although i’d like customizability, it is mostly enough for my everyday needs. But I want to understand why people may choose other desktop environments…or why you would/would’nt use GNOME.

  • tram1@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I like GNOME because I don’t want customizability.

    OK, I like a bit of customizability, but I’m not a designer and trying to make things look consistent and nice is a pain. I once spent days making an icon theme work in Xfce (the freedesktop standards for naming icons are not followed by anyone… (meaning both Xfce and icon themes))

    I use GNOME as is and accept it and everything is swell.

    Also I use a laptop and I’m addicted the three-finger swipe window preview…

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I love customisation and used to customize KDE, but one I saw the new gnome it was pretty much exactly how I was trying to make kde look anyway

      I was going for Pantheon-like before and then realised that’s basically just GNOME with some extra bits

      Also yes three finger swipe is essential for me on a laptop now every DE should have it