• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    GNOME wasn’t really made for desktops

    I can certainly believe that. Yet, pretty much every desktop distro ships it as the default, which boggles my mind.

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      1 year ago

      Well GNOME is the most polished, which means it eneded up being the most popular, which means GTK has the most apps, which makes GNOME look very polished, and the cycle repeats itself.

      Also the vast majority of people use laptops, not desktops.

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        1 year ago

        Why not? Plasma is much more usable out of the box for many users including myself. GNOME’s out of the box experience is really lacking IMHO and requires me to install and configure several extensions just to get what I consider to be a functional UI. I know they have this vision for how they want people to use their OS, but that vision is not aligned with how I actually want to use it. The best way distros can vote against the design choices of GNOME is by making something else the default. The problem I have is that I generally prefer GNOME’s app suite to KDE’s, so that makes the decision a bit more complicated for me.

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        1 year ago

        XFCE. Just as mature, also GTK-based, and a truly happy medium between predefined choices and customization without excessive complexity.