I'm a big fan of GNOME for the opposite reason, I like the default workflow and use it completely vanilla. If you're going to tweak it you may as well use KDE, but the vanilla GNOME workflow is actually pretty great if you embrace it fully as it is.

I like Gnome and have been using it as long as I've been using Linux. The best part of open source is you can use whatever works best for you.

What I do wonder is why people who don't like it need to remind everyone they don't on any Gnome thread.

I like GNOME apps. I don't like the DE that much.

But have you heard of Niri?

Blg fan of fedora atomic Cosmic been my daily for awhile but ran into a show stopper bug (for me) with release 44

So as wait on that resolve thought I'd try KDE again, and it just felt so busy & cluttered lol

Back to Silverblue with few tweaks and it feels just like home. Simple, beautiful, elegant & snappy

Gnome is fantastic indeed, no hurry to leave

We each have our personal zen, options are good

I would possibly upvote this if it were just a GNOME customization guide, and if it didn't try to insist that "GNOME is good, actually."

The copium is strong in this one.

alternate title: "gnome is actually good--once you get rid of most the 'gnome-ness' with these thirteen extensions"

and it is... and it also isn't. once you turn gnome into a kde clone, the kde is gonna run circles around your extension-laden desktop.

an application with an odd name, designed entirely to easily install and update the Firefox GNOME Theme, which transforms Firefox (or LibreWolf, in my case) into something that much more closely resembles a GNOME/libadwaita application

When I used to be around in reddit once read a post or a comment from someone who claimed to be a gnome dev calling for a direct port of firefox to wayland to solve all of those gui kit issues once and for all.

Someone else said such thing was not possible - you can port gui apps' kits to gui kits, not to desktop rendering engines - but a few days ago I also read something about developing an app directly on wayland and that it would be really difficult.

At this point I don't know what to believe but if this can be done it would be awesome. It's kind of funny that the linux version of firefox, written in gtk, needs extra stuff to look good and integrated even in freaking gnome

For me, GNOME for trackpad/touchscreen and KDE for mouse/keyboard. Just updated to 50 on my FW13 (Fedora), it works well but prolly should've waited because I use a few extensions. In time, I want to configure Niri, but uni comes first 🥲

Ok but being good out of the box where i dont have to fuck with it is better. Gnome 3 is a mess.

Until gnome fixed the issue where their logon screen runs as a separate user that can't verify Thunderbolt devices, I couldn't use Gnome if I wanted to.

And Gnome looks very nice, but I don't think I could develop apps for GTK4, they need to get their asses on finishing it and making it actually work.

I tried it out. I ran into constant framework side errors and gaps.

I like KDE Plasma because it uses the same old Desktop paradigm that we've all been used to for decades, which GNOME doesn't have. I really hate its default desktop. I feel it's missing too many features.

What I DO love about GNOME is the limited configurations. (Yeah, I know. Super weird coming from a Linux or KDE user.) I find KDE has WAY too many customizations to a fault. GNOME is more focused. I really enjoyed using GNOME 2 and MATE. It was just perfect.

With the proper extensions, GNOME can be a great Desktop. The best example I can think of is Zorin OS. They really did a great job of customizing it into a more standard experience.

But when a desktop environment needs so many extensions to make it (in my opinion) useable, then the environment is a failure. KDE Plasma is ready to go out of the box.

Again, that's my opinion. You don't have to agree with it.