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...
Yeah, everyone points to resources, but I mean with no apps open I use about 2GB of RAM and a whopping 15GB of disk space on a fairly fresh install on a weak little mini PC. I love when things use less, but in the grand scheme of things 2GB of RAM is beyond trivial and resource wise it pales in comparison to Windows.
It wasn't that long ago that relatively pricey computers didn't even have the expansion slots to allow 2GB of RAM to be installed. KDE used to run just fine on those computers, once you disabled Nepomuk.
...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...
Yeah, everyone points to resources, but I mean with no apps open I use about 2GB of RAM and a whopping 15GB of disk space on a fairly fresh install on a weak little mini PC. I love when things use less, but in the grand scheme of things 2GB of RAM is beyond trivial and resource wise it pales in comparison to Windows.
It wasn't that long ago that relatively pricey computers didn't even have the expansion slots to allow 2GB of RAM to be installed. KDE used to run just fine on those computers, once you disabled Nepomuk.
tell me about it. I can barely run ark on windows, but on fedora, I can run it with reasonably good graphics settings.