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    [–] dkc 71 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    After decades of using different window managers, fixing broken configs with major updates, fretting about multi monitor config etc I started using GNOME. It might not look as sleek but I’m a lot more productive now.

    In the end I’m just glad we have so many choices.

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I feel this, Gnome and it's opinionated workflow just "gets out of the way" in my experience

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

    I went with XFCE for similar reasons. I played with various DEs at one point but after a while I realized I mostly just need an icon to click on to start the application I want to use.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    the majority of people don't actually want choices though.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    If they don't want to choose, that's fine by me. But why tf they didn't want choice? They could just stick to whatever is the default and let others who wanted different choice have their way.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Them using gnome doesn't stop you from using whatever you want actually.

    Right now it's pretty much how you want it to be.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    I didn't specifically comment on GNOME ma dude. Just the other commenter that said most people don't want choice. I think it's not "choice" but it should be "choose". Having to choose can indeed become confusing, so there should be a default or pre chosen choice. Having no choice means you are locked in. Hence my comment. I am having no problem with people not wanting to choose, but people that do not want a choice is when I am starting to have a problem.

    [–] maryjayjay 6 points 5 months ago

    They don't get a choice in that

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I agree, but only on multi touch trackpad, regular mouse and keyboard it's not great.

    [–] Bolt 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    What do you find not great about mouse/keyboard GNOME? All the gestures I know have pretty simple mouse and keyboard equivalents. So far I just gesture three fingers up/down/left/right, which I can do on a keyboard with super/alt-super-left/alt-super-right or on a mouse with hot-corner/corner-click/corner-scroll. If there's a gesture I'm missing out on please let me know, I always like to learn new tricks.