• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    28 minutes ago

    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.

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    24 minutes ago

    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.

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    3 hours ago

    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.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      I took sort of the opposite route. Lifelong windows user. Tried Linux out several times from like 08-12/13. Moved to Linux full time, and landed on Fedora, and absolutely loved it because of Gnome. It was different enough from Windows that it felt like a fresh start. Have been daily driving it since then.

      Two weeks ago I got my first ever apple device because I wanted something genuine reliable for school that didn’t have any weird hiccups, and I just could not stomach the idea of going back to windows. It’s similar enough to gnome that I am adjusting pretty well. Still have fedora on my desktop and backup laptop, though

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    4 hours ago

    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.

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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Pokemon X/Y fire type starter. Starts as a Fennekin, becomes a Braixen, then final evo is Delphox, Fire/Psychic type.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s a Pokémon, and in the game, the creatures you don’t intent to use are stored in a PC