On the contrary. I hadn’t used gnome since 2017, and back then it was absolute junk. Upon installing NixOS two weeks ago, I went with the default desktop environment for while, and this was gnome. I thought at first that NixOS had tweaked gnome into being nice, but my colleague assured me that this is how gbome is today.
More mimalistic, drawing inspiration from macOS.
I still have to remove stuff rather than add stuff to get to where I want. But it wasn’t the first thing I removed on a new install.
I'm going to posit that unless you've used GNOME, KDE, etc. on more than one distribution, it's potentially unfair to judge the DE based on that singular experience.
I've had very different experiences with various desktops depending on which distribution they are on. Ubuntu tends to customize GNOME more than Fedora, so it's possible that what you didn't like was more to do with Ubuntu than GNOME. (Not dissing Ubuntu here - I tested 24.04 recently and it was fine. I actually liked some of their customizations.)
sshine|1 year ago
More mimalistic, drawing inspiration from macOS.
I still have to remove stuff rather than add stuff to get to where I want. But it wasn’t the first thing I removed on a new install.
znpy|1 year ago
jzb|1 year ago
I've had very different experiences with various desktops depending on which distribution they are on. Ubuntu tends to customize GNOME more than Fedora, so it's possible that what you didn't like was more to do with Ubuntu than GNOME. (Not dissing Ubuntu here - I tested 24.04 recently and it was fine. I actually liked some of their customizations.)
lotharcable|1 year ago
It uses Gnome but it isn't Gnome.