Hey I like Gnome :((((((((((((

Uhhhhh anyone know… …the artist’s… name? Cuz cute.

Oh, you didn’t want to be disoriented by all the apps flying apart in every direction when ever you wanted to use the task bar? Oh you wanted a system tray not hidden behind a menu?

Oh, well you can just use a plug in … just pray we don’t update and break all the plug ins anytime soon.

I like Gnome

Fight me

Everyone asking about gnome, but what's a braixen?

My god, I really don't like Gnome.

Hey, at least it doesn't run windows.

Things can always be worse

I see no lies

I love Gnome but it fucking sucks

Lack of desktop shortcuts by default: pretty much why I always switch to cinnamon.

That said, it's not inherently bad, it's just not inherently good.

I like old gnome and have stuck with cinnamon

It puts the Gnome on its skin or else it gets the XFCE again.

Cough cough server side decorations in wayland being sabotaged cough cough

Coming from MacOS into Linux and landing on Debian/Gnome encouraged me into the world of keyboard-driven navigation.

I got into customising keybindings and moved to a split programmable mech keyboard not too long after. Three years ago I made the switch to Sway and now on Niri (all transitions switched off) on my laptop. My desktop workstation still is on Gnome and I switch between the two machines (with full keyboard-driven navigation) seamlessly.

Yes, some extensions do break on updates but I use extensions very minimally and they get patched relatively quickly. For the experience Gnome provides, I dont mind the couple of days that "blur my shell" is broken. The DE remains stable and the keyboard-driven workflow is fast.

Now that I daily drive a WM (on my laptop) I am thankful I started on Gnome upon landing in Linux. It still remains the best keyboard-driven DE out of the box for Linux first-timers. Perhaps Cosmic will be the other DE in a few years.

I hope Gnome sticks to its phislosphy as it truly provides something unique, stable and a great entry point into the world of keyboard-driven workflows out of the box.

Gnome is quite good with dash-to-dock and the system tray plugins, but it does kinda suck both of those need to be plugins.

Get in the fucking PC braixen.

Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn't taken over the desktop market.

CMM.

I'm the guy who actually likes and uses gnome as my daily driver.

It's for people who want to spend less time complaining about desktop environments and more time actually doing stuff.

We should dissolve the GNOME and KDE foundations and all switch to deepin and xfce. Then we might get discourse so stupid it actually kills people.

Ew, Gnome.

Gnome behaves consistently. I want to love kde and have used it since the 3. Days but kwin seems to hate every build I've ever done.

Pretty art, but this meme is really getting boring. I think people are just regurgitating "GNOME bad" because they heard it from some tech youtuber instead of actually trying GNOME for themselves. IMHO GNOME is awesome. It's a bit different, but very comfortable when you get used to it. And definitely reliable.

I often see people using some h4x0r i3wm setup scrolling through workspaces and windows for literal minutes trying to find some app they were using earlier, while on GNOME you can just see everything spatially organised in the activities view. They think they have it "tailored for their needs", but they end up with an unmanageable config file with bits copy-pasted from the internet that is getting harder to understand over time and keeps breaking. I know it from my own experience too, I got tired of it and came back to GNOME.

But if you wanna go down that route, GNOME is also highly customisable. There's lots of extensions that let you change every aspect of it. If you know some JavaScript, you can make your own, there's a decent community and documentation. Things like Niri or Cosmic actually started off as GNOME extensions.

Beer snobs by any other name run KDE.