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    Anon makes fun of @ebassi (programming.dev)
    submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    Edit: I forgot to add context: Emmanuele Bassi (@ebassi) (pejoratively called here ebussy) is one of GNOME developers, known for removing "unnecessary" features.

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    [–] ikidd 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    IDK, I've found Gnome unusable for a long time. I tried to make up for it with extensions for a while, but every release would unapologetically break something I found essential and the extension devs would give up trying to keep them going.

    I understand that eventually they got better about dropping breaking changes without warning, because extension devs were leaving in droves, but at that point KDE got good again with Plasma, and I've never looked back.

    Gnome has their vision to be a completely hands off, dumbed-down, unbreakable DE for the lowest common denominator. I guess judged by that light, it's a success. It's the default in a lot of distros because it's low maintenance for packaging and support. Frankly, I think it's a major reason for the slow speed of Linux desktop uptake, but what do I know.

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

    Thanks for sharing your views ! I am taking an interest in Linux again because of many factors and I'd like to minimize the chances of having to try out many things things before settling on a distro that works for me. I generally don't want to tinker, as long as the tool disappears and does its job well. So far I was under the impression that was the case with Gnome (my last experience dates back to Fedora 19 and Gnome whatever).

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

    I’ve found kde to be pretty straight forward, it’s also the most similar to windows so you get a general feel for where everything should be. Also for me, plasma just works, but if you are unsure and using fedora you can try a love usb with each desktop before installing

    [–] iopq 1 points 5 months ago

    I mean, I tried KDE+Wayland on an Nvidia GPU and it's still not properly working. It should work soon, but it worked okay on gnome for like a year now