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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

    nah gnome is great with ms+kb. as well as touch.

    get outta here with this 2011 meme.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (12 children)

    I prefer gnome. It feels like Linux to me. I don’t want a windows clone like every other DE

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    [–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Every time I try kde I get pissed off that every time I make a settings change I have to hit apply as well. Gnome I just change the settings and close the window. Plus I can never figure out how to switch workspaces. I like super+scroll wheel or swiping on a laptop.

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    [–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    It's always wild to me how these hateposts climb to the top, when all the complaints can be boiled down to "I don't like the design choices"

    Have you tried... Just not using it? No one's forcing you to use it. Have you tried using a different DE instead?

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    [–] [email protected] 186 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Lets not be deliberately obtuse, you're clearly meant to be using it with your feet.

    [–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

    Just the left foot only

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    TIL Gnome devs have (left) foot fetishism

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    [–] [email protected] 169 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    GNOME is more keyboard-focused than KDE. It just also happens to have much better touch support.

    Get this meme to /linuxsucks where it belongs.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

    How do you even open the "Application" view on a touch device?

    [–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    In my experience, KDE Plasma is surprisingly actually better than Gnome for tablet use. You would think that Gnome's more minimal and chunky UI would make it a better fit, but Plasma just has a lot more little usability QOL features.

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

    This has been my experience as well. Fedora KDE is easier and more intuitive than Fedora GNOME on my Surface Go 2.

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    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

    GNOME is more keyboard-focused "in the way the devs thought it's good". If users want to change the way, they gonna use tweaks, dconf editor or gsettings and navigate a jungle of key-value pairs like Windows Registry

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yeah, this meme is a complete whiff, just seems edgy/hipster-y while ignoring the fact that nobody really cares because GNOME is a great DE.

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    How is KDE less keyboard-focused? I spent like ten minutes setting up kwin shortcuts and now have the same level of keyboard-only interaction as with any WM.

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    GNOME doesn't have nearly enough keyboard shortcuts for me as a keyboard focused user. IMHO, keyboard use is all about customizability, which GNOME is not.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    You can set keyboard shortcuts by the main navigation is designed to be done via mouse gestures.

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    [–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago (14 children)

    Gnome does some questionable things, and some are just personal preference, but there is at least one thing that they do that makes zero sense regardless of how you use your system...

    The AppIndicator extension SHOULD be default. There is no reason for it to be an extension other than pure stubbornness. There are applications that literally require it in order to function at all.

    [–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    That you need an extension to disable the overview at startup still boggles my mind and the arrogance of the developers in the thread that started it didn't lessen my antipathy for Gnome at all.

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    [–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    GNOME looks like it is touch friendly, but try to run it on a tablet and it's really fucking not. I had to DL a bunch of tweaks tools to make it useable at all and now the tablet breaks whenever there's a Gnome update that the tweaks weren't designed for.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    Its not bad on a tablet. However I think the core design build around keyboard and mouse. (Mostly mouse/trackpad)

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I like gnome personally. It is all about simple inclusive design

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

    I get distracted/overwhelmed fairly easily, so GNOME is a godsend. minimalistic top bar + on demand workspaces to throw my extra windows into = I can actually get stuff done.

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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I thought it was going to be a joke about Windows 8

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    Wh-what? Have you used GNOME before or just mad because they don't have the shitty main menu copied from MS Windows?

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    most of the things in gnome extensions should be built in and available from the settings. that being said there's nothing stopping me from just using something else, hence why I use kde.

    [–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    What is the difference between adding a extension and enabling a setting other than that a disabled feature is just bloat?

    I mean any distro can serve the extension it wants

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