I really like gnome and how it looks. However every time I try it I find myself in need of more functionality and so I install a bunch of extensions. For example I can’t live without a dock and some sort of system tray that shows which apps are running in background.

Sometimes the extensions have small UI inconsistencies or use more memory than usual. That’s why I totally ditched gnome and switch to KDE.

Also I tend to think it’s been designed for people who are more comfortable using a keyboard. I’m mostly a mouse person.

Do any of you run pure gnome with no extensions? How do you cope with the lack of a dock and system tray?

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use blur my shell, but I don’t really need it.

    I started liking Gnome a lot more once I let go of trying to recreate the Win95 UX that pretty much everyone else uses.

    It was such a pain at first, but then it just clicked and now I couldn’t go back to that clunky workflow.

    I know most people like it that way, but IMO Microsoft didn’t create the perfect UX paradigm back in the early 90s

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        It took a couple of weeks of irritation

        So maybe it’s just not for everyone! Good thing we have plenty of options

    • yum13241@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I prefer a windows 7 like Superbar more.

      Please XFCE, stop wasting my dock space. I use KDE solely because I couldn’t get a normal taskbar on XFCE.