Gnome is just as beautiful as MacOS. The only difference is that MacOS is colorful, while Gnome is more b&w in its design. In fact, I'd say that gnome is more modern than macOS in its overall design philosophy. So modern, that some people hate it, lol. But modern nonetheless.
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I love Gnomes design btw. My second favorite after Android.
I recently started using the openbar extension which adds a lot of color to Gnome with just a few clicks.
Sharp as, it looks blurry or sharp as, its not polished?
Ahh good hint. Not polished. Windows could be more beautyful for example.
@[email protected] i get what you saying. but as i lack experience with distros i find it interesting. can you add a few more examples of polished like how?
for example the corner on the left. Buttons somehow look better. macOS gives the the feeling of sharpnes. Im so sorry its so difficult for me to discripe it.
Part of using GNOME (at least to me) is expanding on the interface and building a personal experience through extensions.
Cover-flow when and-tabbing? Extension. Dynamic opacity of top bar? Extension. Wiggly-wobbly effects when dragging or minimising/maximising windows? Extension. Installing custom themes? Guess what, that's an extension too!
I think you understand where this is going.
In terms of polish (looking sharp), GNOME is the best on linux, still it can look much better in terms of eye candy if you add extensions. I think I have like 50+ extensions myself.
Thanks good feedback
Alright. Let's have it. What's the extensions that enhance the look of Gnome, propelling it into eye-candy heaven?
Im using this but suggestions would be helpful:
yes, i get it. it's sort of a thing that my brain can't describe either, but want to hear someone go about it continuously to get it better.
It's transparency and blur, gnome favors performance over looks (not that it looks bad), you can get the same look on gnome if u theme it
As others have said, it is not entirely clear what you mean by sharp. Based on the rounded corner and button example you gave previously, I think it might just be the graphic design. MacOS has had a lot of time invested into its design language including subtle things like a thin, almost glass-like specular border around windows and then a drop shadow. This very much becomes a matter of taste in many cases, but for some it helps identify boundaries more precisely. Perhaps have a look at https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme, which replicates MacOS as closely as possible. You may be able to experiment with it side by side and see if you can figure out exactly what design element it is that you are looking for.
Because Linux doesnt compete with MacOS? Linux doesnt compete against any other OS because unlike Windows or MacOS, Linux isnt owned by a for-profit organization (Linux doesnt have something to sell). Gnome is driven by community efforts to polish a community maintained set of tools, I would say theyve done a very good job.
Indeed great work!
KDE Plasma may be a lot more customizable than Gnome, so you might be able to find something more like what you are looking for there. I would do a web search for varied examples if I were you.
You could search for more Gnome examples too. I believe Gnome requires more in the way of plugins for customization, so you might have to seek out examples of gnome plugins that customize look and feel or window styling. I'm just speculating here, I don't really know Gnome very well.
I will force me to test KDE for a longer therm. Thanks for the feedback.
I find Gnome smoother than macOS.
This wasn't the case many years ago, but now I find Gnome pretty good, the amount of bugs are surprisingly low.
On the other hand, I experience glitches on macOS regularly on the UI, especially on a multi-monitor setup (I use both Gnome and macOS with multiple monitors).
And generally feature-wise I find Gnome a lot more convenient to use in terms of window or workspace management.
On the other hand, I experience glitches on macOS regularly on the UI, especially on a multi-monitor setup (I use both Gnome and macOS with multiple monitors).
Multi monitor and window tiling on Mac are so bad, they should be embarrassed.
You have to click to switch monitors but if you do it twice it registers as a double click so you have to click....wait...then click again.
Sometimes you can drag windows from one screen to the other and other times they just...disappear as you drag then across.
You can't close anything from the window buttons and the red and yellow buttons do the same thing. You have to go into the taskbar and right click to close them.
Then they took the time in Sequoia to add window tiling but it's just such an awful experience. You have to hover over the green dot and wait for the prompt to popup and choose from a drop-down menu. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DRAG AND DROP!?
I had the same with macOS. Sometime, more often after updates i had several bugs. With gnome never.
Because it's not Plasma 6.
Are you using fractional scaling?
No.
So from some of your comments, it seems that by sharpness, you are referring to the sharpness of text in gnome on high resolution displays (4k in your case) when compared to macos or windows. Well in my experience, text rendering in Linux hasn't been as good as the macos or windows but it has been improving steadily. If I remember correctly, the differences lie in the anti aliasing done to text to make them sharper. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.
Also maybe edit your post to mention that the high quality you are talking about is the sharpness of font rendering.
Thanks this was that im looking for.
You won't get the same united look in Gnome as in mac OS. Applications will look a bit different and not exactly the same.
I think you get used to it though. I don't think about it at all anymore.
Not really true if you just stick to modern GTK apps. Almost always if you find a program for a specific purpose using Qt (KDE graphical framework) someone's make a program for the exact same function. Is it basically pointless other than keeping theming and style consistent? Yes, but that's enough for me unless there truly is an essential function missing. Basically the only Qt application I use is Strawberry Music Player because it's extremely featureful.
Depends on the usage though. While I prefer GTK over Qt as well, for me there are no GTK alternatives for Krita, Kate and Ghostwriter.
And then there's kvantum.
If you want the MacOS experience, install Garuda. Personally, I hate that global menu, and the first thing I do on a fresh install is get rid of it, but if that's what you like...
It's KDE, not GNOME, though.
Have you tried theming gnome? There's a ton of videos on youtube if you're a beginner, i wonder if you'll have the same thoughts after theming it
Do yourself a favor and ditch GNOME for KDE. You'll be glad you did. Especially if you're into theming.
I tried to do that a little while ago, but I just couldn't get used to the Menu on kde. Even with themes, it was miles behind ArcMenu on gnome.
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. Is it the global menu?
Ah, I only remember it being called the Menu lol. KDEs equivilent to a start menu in windows
Consider adding the Dash To Panel extension. It was the polish Gnome was missing for me: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
I'd also be a bit remiss if I didn't recommended WinTile, too: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1723/wintile-windows-10-window-tiling-for-gnome/
If you want a nice looking distro with some interesting features try Nitrux: nxos.org
immutable. So, no, sorry.
What speaks against immutable? Had bazzite for gaming for a while that was realy nice.
Look at the kde themes in the settings app.