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- onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- cross-posted to:
- onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43631736
Gnome Slander Rules
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43631736
Gnome Slander Rules
Just as you mentioned, GNOME is not very welcoming to deep customization. You either use it the dev-intended way, or you don’t use it at all.
If you like the default GNOME way of doing things, it’s alright. If you don’t - no amount of extensions will help.
And it all would be fine if GNOME wouldn’t be the default on quite a few distros, including, most importantly, Ubuntu. New users come from Windows, hear the old advice to just “go Ubuntu” and meet an absolutely horrible and unintuitive experience unlike everything they ever touched. This alone made Linux some bad rep.
Not to mention Gnome is monolithic, so any bug will immediately crash the whole desktop. Other than basically any other desktop compositor, window manager and desktop environment are tightly intertwined, so any extension (which still monkey-patch code directly into gnome-shell) can utterly break the whole thing to the point you don’t have a graphical interface anymore.
Compared to KDE, Cinnamon and others (who can have their whole desktop crash without taking any applications with it as long as the window manager etc. and drivers remain unaffected, usually trying to restart the DE and spawn e.g. Dr Konqi) Gnome loves to be unstable because of this. If Gnome crashes it takes everything with a GUI with it.
Been using gnome for years, literally cannot remember a single time the entirety of gnome crashed.
I’ve used gnome tweaks for a long time as well.
Whereas everytime I’ve tried to use a custom KDE theme of some kind, some part of it is broken in some fun new extremely specific way that I did not know KDE could be broken in.