After many years on GNOME, I finally submitted to Plasma supremacy.

[kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml]

GNOME lost the plot when they abandoned the 2.x design philosophy.

[mski@lemmy.ca]

Plasma is great for the flexibility (shortcuts), and so easy these days.

I was searching for task switcher, expose, etc. And just completely gapped on searching 'overview'. (Web searches didn't show it either, possibly because it's too simple, so nobody posts about it.)

Next up I might have to play some window tiling (e.g. like i3, sway & hyprland).

[mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works]

Care to explain what that is?

[themoken@startrek.website]

GNOME 3 introduced the current shell paradigm where you don't really have a start menu but a variety of searches, integrated indicators, per-app desktops with a dock etc.

Before, it was far more conventional experience like Plasma/Windows/Cinnamon are now. GNOME 2 was forked to be the MATE desktop if you want to check it out.

[waterwaiver@aussie.zone]

GNOME 2 was fun and easy. It felt like they were trying to learn from the mistakes of Windows and Mac UIs.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

I'm the opposite, after plasma I went gnome

Better than any plasma experience I tried to craft myself – and it's the default setting – so I have no reason to come back. But I still could switch, as long as cosmic is good

[routhinator@startrek.website]

You don't need special docks in KDE, its all configurable through the default desktop settings. You have enough knobs to make it look like anything.

[curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Totally fine to have KDE set up aesthetically as you please.

They like how gnome looks, not as much how it works.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

You should have tried Dash to Panel instead of Dash to Dock, based on your preferences. That plus Wintile is what keeps me on Gnome vs Plasmathese days.

[john89@lemmy.ca]

I totally agree.

[john89@lemmy.ca]

Gnome devs shouldn't have put the onus of adding settings onto addon developers...

Never going to forgive those fools for having something like "gnome tweak tools" be recommended to so many users without them adding an official implementation.

[txtechnician@lemmy.ml]

I tried gnome for a bit. I really liked the workflow. But the over simplification of the interface just killed me.

I got tired of it. And took the things I like from gnome and implemented them in plasma. (Swipe for virtual desktops for example)

[shirro@aussie.zone]

I recognize many of the deficiencies of Gnome but on balance I still like using it.

I never migrated from Windows or Mac desktop. I got into Linux before WIndows 95 came out and although I had used Mac and Amiga desktops I never owned one myself. I have used tiling wms and plain wms with no desktop environment and I can find my way around on Windows 11 or Mac but I don't like either as much as Gnome. KDE generally has a better foundation thanks largely thanks to qt but I never enjoyed using KDE. Not surprised it is very popular with the new influx of Windows refugees. To me KDE always had a slightly dated Windows look and feel to it. It is still a very solid choice ofcourse.

Gnome hate became fashionably when they moved forward from Gnome 2 and some people never shut up about it. We get it. Your favorite band aren't teenagers anymore and decided to make an album you don't like. it is ancient history. Just use something else guys.

[atek@lemm.ee]

That looks amazing! Can you tell je how you did it?
Everytime i start to tweak with the taskbar/dock/statusbar it comes out chonky and doesnt work. All i want i the same look as you have, but ive never come close!

[gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Right!? I was half expecting a maintainer somewhere to start adding some extra recommends or something when it really started to get grim. Happy Plasma user now

[hmmm@sh.itjust.works]

How did you get those panel on bottom?

[idefix@sh.itjust.works]

It's been a bumpy road. I have strong memories of Gnome devs explaining to users how wrong they were to dislike Nautilus's awful spatial mode.
And when that guy refused to implement a switch off option because users were wrong to ask for it.

Now really, it's quite functional once you've tweaked with gnome-tools and added vital extensions. You also have to remember useless stuff such as "Video" means "Totem". I'll just never understand why they don't really care about sane defaults.

[programmingsocks@pawb.social]

OK. They aren't products. Not really sure why you feel the need to announce this.

[vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de]

except that extensions are second class citizens at best, on gnome. Some (or all, sometimes) of them will break after an update.

[vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de]

I set it up once on install, 4 years ago. I have never needed to tweak any settings after that. Even when installing a different distro (config lives in the home directory)