Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?
Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.
Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university
Yah, I’m not even being sarcastic. I think it’s over-simplistic interface and disinterest in keeping extensions working over the years has been a major pissoff of people that stuck their nose in and then noped out. Maybe former Mac users could handle it since they’re used to being herded around, but expecting Windows users to come into that bullshit and feel at home was a big mistake.
I loved it when I first encountered it. It was simple, elegant, and easy to use. Over time though, things got bad. I relied on an extension to show the taskbar on all monitors as well as the “Other locations” tab in the file manager to see disk usage plus some other things but these two broke the camel’s back. Every upgrade the extension stopped working for a few months, but at least I could delay upgrading for a bit. That was until the extension maintainer went AWOL, so no update was made for at least a year.
The “other locations” tab showed disk usage just a click away from my usual workflows. As someone who has a habit of making high utilisation of my disks, keeping an eye on disk usage was required. That was until Gnome decided we were too good for such an easy location so now the only place to see disk usage is in the disk usage analyzer that 1) is rarely used 2) takes a while to start up while it’s scanning the entire disk. My habit of checking disk usage thus died. Until I had to upgrade to the new distro version. And it turned out I didn’t have enough storage left to carry out the installation so my laptop bricked itself halfway. I was lucky that I could boot with a rescue image to clear some space and continue the upgrade but the first thing I did when it was finished was to install Plasma and kill Gnome.
I bought a mac mini to run some cad software as everything else I have is Linux KDE. Hated it so much after a few months I bought a laptop and win 10 IoT LTSC license…
Gnome is the only desktop environment that pissed me off as much as macOS, and that’s after giving it a good try recently in Ubuntu Pro while working out a new auto roll out solution for work.
Gnome being the default in most major distros for the last 30 years is why Linux hasn’t taken over the desktop market.
CMM.
are you sure its gnome and not the hundreds of other problems that appear on kde and xfce too?
Reminds me of the garbage collector bug on Plasma that would take memory usage to several GB that the devs told people they were full of shit when they reported it and took a year to fix?
Oh, wait, that was gnome. KDE devs give a fuck about their users.
im not sure what this comment has to do with the message you are replying to
None of the problems in KDE and XFCE are caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user
none of my problems with gnome were caused by the maintainers deliberately making things harder for the user
the maintainers dont have to intentionally do something for it to be a problem that would make people not want to use linux
Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university
Yah, I’m not even being sarcastic. I think it’s over-simplistic interface and disinterest in keeping extensions working over the years has been a major pissoff of people that stuck their nose in and then noped out. Maybe former Mac users could handle it since they’re used to being herded around, but expecting Windows users to come into that bullshit and feel at home was a big mistake.
I loved it when I first encountered it. It was simple, elegant, and easy to use. Over time though, things got bad. I relied on an extension to show the taskbar on all monitors as well as the “Other locations” tab in the file manager to see disk usage plus some other things but these two broke the camel’s back. Every upgrade the extension stopped working for a few months, but at least I could delay upgrading for a bit. That was until the extension maintainer went AWOL, so no update was made for at least a year.
The “other locations” tab showed disk usage just a click away from my usual workflows. As someone who has a habit of making high utilisation of my disks, keeping an eye on disk usage was required. That was until Gnome decided we were too good for such an easy location so now the only place to see disk usage is in the disk usage analyzer that 1) is rarely used 2) takes a while to start up while it’s scanning the entire disk. My habit of checking disk usage thus died. Until I had to upgrade to the new distro version. And it turned out I didn’t have enough storage left to carry out the installation so my laptop bricked itself halfway. I was lucky that I could boot with a rescue image to clear some space and continue the upgrade but the first thing I did when it was finished was to install Plasma and kill Gnome.
I bought a mac mini to run some cad software as everything else I have is Linux KDE. Hated it so much after a few months I bought a laptop and win 10 IoT LTSC license… Gnome is the only desktop environment that pissed me off as much as macOS, and that’s after giving it a good try recently in Ubuntu Pro while working out a new auto roll out solution for work.
MacOS lovers might try but we don’t have a lot of them who switched over to Gnome
Idk I gave it to my sister and she had 0 complaints. I don’t think it’s perfect, but a sane default choice.