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GNOME is fine I will die on this hill. It's not for Windows refugees, though.spoiler
my issue with gnome is that it's not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep workingspoiler
Just apt-mark hold gnome /sspoiler
That's a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it's been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it's absolutely GNOME's biggest downfall.It's also partially why I don't recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there's a good chance it just won't work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.
I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time.
@R00bot @mlg I love that you called them windows refugees. What about MacOS? (As a power user/software engineer)
I came from macOS and found GNOME pretty accommodating. It's more akin to macOS than to Windows, both looks and customisation-wise. I'm also a software engineer! :)
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Welcome to the free world and nice to have you here ♥️
Thanks! I feel obliged to say I built my PC in 2023, but Linux still feels exciting to me. Trying to avoid becoming that annoying Linux guy who tells everyone to install it lol.