Gnome is great. It changes your workflow, and can be really good for someone who uses their keyboard a lot. However, it doesn’t’ give you a lot of options to customize out of the box. I am going to go over how you can change icons, themes, window buttons, and how to utilize extensions to customize your desktop to the max.
Having said all that, I do think it’s stupid that GNOME pushes people towards their specific workflow idea when so many distros ship it by default.
No one adopts a new workflow, if that’s not what they knowingly signed up for. They’re going to come from Windows to Ubuntu and think that this desktop is really bad, because it fights their way of working at every corner.
Yes, of course. They could’ve named Gnome 3 something else though, since it vastly digressed from what was the Gnome 2 user interface. It was not an evolution, but a complete redesign. That’s basically my only “problem” with Gnome 3 ;)
Sounds cool, I’ll look into that. I’ve been missing tiling features but really like the polish KDE Plasma has gotten the last few years.
Yeah. They basically decided they don’t support Gnome 2 anymore in the blink of an eye. They forced the community to come up with MATE as a continuation of it and IIRC the MATE devs needed a few years to really take off with it. Radical change is good, but not when you stop supporting your whole userbase…
That, too. And coming from Windows, which has a single window manager and a lot of opinionated defaults into a completely overwhelming system where you need to make choices will mean that the Year Of The Linux Desktop™ might never be a reality. Which doesn’t need to be; because we can have a year of lots of people using a particular Linux distribution and broadening their horizons instead…