I didn’t know that about fingerprint support, but my experience of it is it not working but getting in the way, and looking a bit pants compared to kde
Nahhh KDE is the one looking pants. In Gnome everything is very consistent and in KDE very much not so. Even something as simple as the toolbar looks ass.
Gnome is very intuitive too, I like the window overview and it just doesn’t get in my way.
I was an i3wm user before going to Gnome. All the defaults just work, which saves me time
KDE is consistent, and much more configurable. But I mostly like the defaults barring where my toolbars go and switching to single click open for files. Will Gnome even allow me to have one main toolbar vertically on the left hand side of the screen, then two axillary auto-hiding short ones on the top and bottom right with programme shortcuts on one and the taskbar on the other?
> in gnome the few things it still does despite the dev’s desire to make it as bare as mac os while keeping it as heavy and sluggish as they possibly can are very consistent
Yeah I know, i was there (and I always preferred KDE… migrated to it from Windowmaker of all things, I never could get the hang of Enlightenment, pretty though it was). But that was sorted literally decades ago!
Yeah it was sorted out really long ago. But also it’s not like all these brand new from scratch Linux distros are choosing vanilla gnome. It’s the same big players as decades ago, and their derivatives.
I have never understood why gnome seems to the go-to choice for default DE for so many distros
Because it just works and looks really good out of the box. Its the only DE with good, seamless fingerprint support for example
I didn’t know that about fingerprint support, but my experience of it is it not working but getting in the way, and looking a bit pants compared to kde
Nahhh KDE is the one looking pants. In Gnome everything is very consistent and in KDE very much not so. Even something as simple as the toolbar looks ass.
Gnome is very intuitive too, I like the window overview and it just doesn’t get in my way.
I was an i3wm user before going to Gnome. All the defaults just work, which saves me time
KDE is consistent, and much more configurable. But I mostly like the defaults barring where my toolbars go and switching to single click open for files. Will Gnome even allow me to have one main toolbar vertically on the left hand side of the screen, then two axillary auto-hiding short ones on the top and bottom right with programme shortcuts on one and the taskbar on the other?
I love Gnome, but ots not consistent atm due to the switch to libadwaita4
> in gnome the few things it still does despite the dev’s desire to make it as bare as mac os while keeping it as heavy and sluggish as they possibly can are very consistent
ftfy
What do you mean? I’ve never had a problem with it on KDE, Fedora at least
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I will admit I am amazed by it at times… not in the way you mean though
Old history - Qt had licensing concerns, gtk+ was guaranteed FOSS, so major distros shipped Gnome2 by default, and it stuck.
Yeah I know, i was there (and I always preferred KDE… migrated to it from Windowmaker of all things, I never could get the hang of Enlightenment, pretty though it was). But that was sorted literally decades ago!
Yeah it was sorted out really long ago. But also it’s not like all these brand new from scratch Linux distros are choosing vanilla gnome. It’s the same big players as decades ago, and their derivatives.
it has less information on screen at any given time than stock dwm so it looks clean an professional on screenshots
Hmmm, I guess that’s plausible. Awful reason, but plausible
So does openbox /s