I dug around to see myself, first glance, he has unpopular opinions and goes on autistic spergs about them. Fair enough then I started seeing things like "racist, MAGA, right-wing, nazi, conspiracy theorist, Trump." You know the normal leftist crap. Being that GNOME is perhaps the most infiltrated large open source project, there's the answer.
There's always been a not small subset of Linux desktops that really want to be a Mac and I've never understood why. Mac has always been a pain in the ass, but going way back there was always some "I'm a artíst, I only use Mac because my brain is superior you loathful PC scum." So I suspect it's from people wanting to join in that somehow.
My understanding is with Gnome 3 they went all in with the "here's our way, it's the best so do it this way only" method just like Apple does too.
why I switched to KDE. yeah, it's a bit resource-heavy compared to cinnamon or MATE, but I'm familiar with it, and my god man...gnome sucks harder than kamala trying to imitate a kirby vaccum...
Installed a gnome distro VM a while back to do something and to launch a program you move the mouse to the upper left then back down to the bottom center.
That's like some kind of UI hate crime. Commodore Amiga had a better UI than this Gnome trash.
edit: he called out Gnome for hiring a self-proclaimed professional shaman as Executive Director.
There was a version of gnome3 that required you to actually swipe to unlock to get to the password prompt if your screen was locked. Even on a desktop, you had to press left mouse and swipe up. It only lasted very briefly and soon after they made it so pressing any key would show the prompt as well, but to this day I can't fathom what was going throufmgh the head of whoever implemented that. I'm sure the GNOME devs would love to keep it that way, too, but it was so dumb it was unacceptable to Red Hat.
That was the initial GNOME 3 release. By the time they fixed it, I had already switched to XFCE. They believed that desktops were obsolete, and that tablets and phones were the future of computing.
Apparently they wanted to make an UI that would be usable on both touchscreen and mouse-driven devices, ended up with something that doesn't work well on either.
I've been a daily-driver desktop user of Linux for something like 5 or 6 years now. To work on a expansion of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, I installed it on a PC as a dual boot, and it uses GNOME. It's terrible and with it being the default on a lot of the go-to beginner Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), I'd argue it's holding Linux adoption back. You get someone techy enough to actually try it, they see something like "hey Ubuntu is easy for beginners," then get put off by that crap.
Yeah, I’d probably push a new user to Fedora KDE. It’s annoying to say because they are oozed too, but for something that works well it’s a good start. I started with Kubuntu for about the first year and it gave me too many little unnecessary issues. It’s really not that good, and it’s a wonder I stuck it out.
Why are they triggered with Lunduke?
I dug around to see myself, first glance, he has unpopular opinions and goes on autistic spergs about them. Fair enough then I started seeing things like "racist, MAGA, right-wing, nazi, conspiracy theorist, Trump." You know the normal leftist crap. Being that GNOME is perhaps the most infiltrated large open source project, there's the answer.
...explains why it tries to hard to look like MacOX...
There's always been a not small subset of Linux desktops that really want to be a Mac and I've never understood why. Mac has always been a pain in the ass, but going way back there was always some "I'm a artíst, I only use Mac because my brain is superior you loathful PC scum." So I suspect it's from people wanting to join in that somehow.
My understanding is with Gnome 3 they went all in with the "here's our way, it's the best so do it this way only" method just like Apple does too.
why I switched to KDE. yeah, it's a bit resource-heavy compared to cinnamon or MATE, but I'm familiar with it, and my god man...gnome sucks harder than kamala trying to imitate a kirby vaccum...
I'm going to say he called them idiots.
Installed a gnome distro VM a while back to do something and to launch a program you move the mouse to the upper left then back down to the bottom center.
That's like some kind of UI hate crime. Commodore Amiga had a better UI than this Gnome trash.
edit: he called out Gnome for hiring a self-proclaimed professional shaman as Executive Director.
There was a version of gnome3 that required you to actually swipe to unlock to get to the password prompt if your screen was locked. Even on a desktop, you had to press left mouse and swipe up. It only lasted very briefly and soon after they made it so pressing any key would show the prompt as well, but to this day I can't fathom what was going throufmgh the head of whoever implemented that. I'm sure the GNOME devs would love to keep it that way, too, but it was so dumb it was unacceptable to Red Hat.
That was the initial GNOME 3 release. By the time they fixed it, I had already switched to XFCE. They believed that desktops were obsolete, and that tablets and phones were the future of computing.
Apparently they wanted to make an UI that would be usable on both touchscreen and mouse-driven devices, ended up with something that doesn't work well on either.
...kinda like when the windows8 interface swarmed across all MS devices, even though users absolutely hated it?
yeah, that checks out...
I've been a daily-driver desktop user of Linux for something like 5 or 6 years now. To work on a expansion of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, I installed it on a PC as a dual boot, and it uses GNOME. It's terrible and with it being the default on a lot of the go-to beginner Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), I'd argue it's holding Linux adoption back. You get someone techy enough to actually try it, they see something like "hey Ubuntu is easy for beginners," then get put off by that crap.
I hate all the shilling for Ubuntu. My initial experience with it put me off Linux for a while
Yeah, I’d probably push a new user to Fedora KDE. It’s annoying to say because they are oozed too, but for something that works well it’s a good start. I started with Kubuntu for about the first year and it gave me too many little unnecessary issues. It’s really not that good, and it’s a wonder I stuck it out.
Unfortunately so many apps are still reliant on GTK so it's hard to avoid gnome completely