After many explorations, hesitations and tribulations; and after having thought that an Arch derivative with KDE is the way; and after having later considered that more desktop stability would be advisable, and having a fling for Ubuntu MATE 21.04, a quick experiment showed me that Ubuntu MATE cannot be trusted, and that maybe I should...

This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You left off the part about this being just your opinion and a lot of people like gnome.

    Do you know why there’s KDE, XFCE and others? Because there’s also a lot of people who dislike GNOME.

    I don’t dislike GNOME, I just know for a fact that most of what they do is trying to “reinvent the wheel” every three years.

      • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yeah I remember those early days. KDE had a 1.0 version out in the late 90s, which was perfectly usable as a standalone desktop environment, while at the same time Gnome was little more than a panel with a foot. Early Gnome was an unholy mess and remained so until the late 2.x versions in the mid 2000s. Like how many window managers and file managers did they go through? I believe they even had Enlightenment as the default window manager for a while, and then there was that weird Ximian desktop phase.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        Hold your horses, when I said “exist because” I was implying any particular time frame, I was just saying that if GNOME was really that superior everything else would’ve already died out without users / developers.

        • Moxvallix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Do you know why there’s KDE, XFCE and others? Because there’s also a lot of people who dislike GNOME.

          If we are getting pedantic here, the above quote is clearly implying that alternatives exist and are actively developed because people dislike GNOME. Your statement does not take in to account the possibility that people just like the other alternatives, and may still like GNOME as well, or feel indifference towards it.

          No one is claiming that GNOME has the superior desktop experience. Rather, GNOME has a more opinionated experience, that suits some people, and not others. For some people, it will be superior. For others, they will prefer KDE, XFCE etc.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      No, they don’t exist because of Gnome lol.

      Source on it reinventing the wheel every 2-3 years?

      Gnome 3 was well over a decade ago. It’s worked the same way ever since.