Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
People shitting on Gnome sound like kids bitching that the free pizza shop doesn’t offer your favorite hamburger.
Also, all this sudden Gnome hate all over Lemmy is trendy as fuck, being trendy used to mean you were a loser with no original style, I guess the capitalists turned it into “viral” and made it cool.
It’s been this way forever. I never see KDE get near the hate from gnome users because it just doesn’t affect them.
When you can pick whatever you like i don’t understand why you’d waste time complaining about any you don’t use.
This is a dumb take too, it’s important to criticize and scrutinize anything and everything down to the smallest detail to understand what works and what doesn’t, how and why that is the case in order to make better decisions for the future. You have to think critically, especially about software even when it’s a matter of preference.
Do you think the devs aren’t “thinking critically” as they’ve made a very cohesive de?
Besides that, people saying “Gnome sucks, it’s garbage” is not a constructive criticism anyhow.
The only dumb take is the one above this comment.
It’s because everyone that uses Linux will stumble across gnome at least once because it’s in Ubuntu which is the first and only distro a lot of people use, so you have to go out of your way to use something else like KDE.
Why do people complain about anything?
Because why not? I don’t like Gnome but I complain about it because I can and I don’t like it.
I also complain about IOS, macOS, And a lot of other shit that doesn’t matter. I just like to voice my opinion like everyone else. There is no need to listen.
Ubuntu’s version of Gnome is heavily modified to look and feel like their old Unity DE though. Vanilla Gnome like in Fedora or Arch is a vastly different experience.
Arch?
Last time I installed arch it didn’t have any DE (or anything really) by default.
Correct. But if you install gnome, it comes with default configs
That’s true with KDE as well.
Who said it wasn’t
They implied that gnome was special in some way.
Gnome is shit, I use KDE btw is definitely the new Reddit/Lemmy Linux community circlejerk.
And it’s not even like console fanboy arguments, because in this case it’s pretty one-sided. I don’t see Gnome fans brigading KDE threads and circlejerking about KDE being awful and the devs being cunts.
Idk why people can’t just accept that they’re both amazing DEs but very different in use, with very different project philosophies.
It seems to me that people keep saying “Linux is about choice”, but the second someone chooses something different to what the hivemind likes, the pitchforks are out.
Lol, typical Lemmy to blame everything on capitalism.
Gnome is just incredibly annoying to use. It’s not a trendy thing to say, it’s just my opinion.
I find some software annoying too but I’m not 12 so I don’t feel the need to shit on people volunteering their time to make software for people.
I really enjoy gnome, I much prefer it.
That’s fair enough. I don’t understand why personally but you do you.
I see you’re upset people don’t like gnome.
I don’t care what people like, I don’t like people shitting on open source projects and dividing the community.
If we divided Gnome right out of the open source community, we wouldn’t have lost much.
It’d be a massive loss. The best DE would be gone.
Naw, Cinnamon will still be here.
Lmao
Right.
You don’t like that people don’t like gnome. You care about what they like.
I, personally, think when we love something we want it to be the best it can be. Gnome devs seem to just be red hat employees who don’t actually care about making a good DE, just doing the easiest work while [WONTFIX]ing anything that takes actual effort.
You don’t even talk with gnome devs. You talk with red hat. They’re employees first for a company owned by IBM.
But Gnome is a great DE, I’ve used it as a daily driver for personal and at work for many years. I can’t say I have any major complaints. What’s so terrible about Gnome?
Do you use gnome tweak tools?
Because if I do, then that proves Gnome is terrible and all the devs should drive off a cliff?
Splitting the community? Who cares, it doesn’t matter anyways.
I care, and so do many others, it happens to some with empathy when they grow out of their preteen years.