New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why is Gnome so inceridlby, insanely, bad?
Ask HN: Why is Gnome so inceridlby, insanely, bad?
5 by indulona | 12 comments on Hacker News.
I was trying various linux distributions in virtualbox to check out how they look and feel because I might switch from windows 10 in near future and I heard good things about linux recently, especially about games due to Valve's Proton. I really liked Fedora as the primary distro I would go for and I like the look of gnome in it, but i could not figure out how it could have such a horrible user experience in 2024. What am i talking about.. Firstly, there are no min/max icons on the windows. Only close. So you have to sherlock your way through the internet and find out you need a third party extension that will enable this basic functionality, which has been part of any mainstream operating system for decades as absolutely basic standard for window managers and absolutely no person in the world who has ever used a computer would expect NOT to have it available in their operating system. Second, it has a top bar that is like on a mobile phone and has no real functionality on desktop(ie. it shows time and not much else). In order to see the task bar, you have to press top-left icon that will bring it up. And it is not a task bar, it is just a dock ala apple mac os. So in order to switch between applications, you have to use tab or get into this desktop section by clicking on said icon(possibly win-key or some other functional key). This takes so much time and requires so many actions that I am probably simply too retarded to imagine a person who came up with such behavior and on top of that other people deemed it to be so good to make it the default behavior in the entire gnome project. When you sherlock through the internet yet again, and waste many more time, yet again, you will find there is yet another third party extension what will allow you to transform this hidden dock into constantly visible dock, maybe even make it look like a proper task bar by removing that useless top bar. These are mere two examples. I simply cannot imagine how in 2024 linux is still so incredibly stupid when it comes to desktop. I've been using computers since 1996, am no it/tech newbie, but this just takes my breath away. Can someone explain why that is going on? And yeah, I tried KDE as well. That was issue-less from the get-go, like any desktop environment is supposed to be. My gripe is with gnome due to its popularity. I would expect it to be long dead when the user experience is worse than a $2 philipine whore.
5 by indulona | 12 comments on Hacker News.
I was trying various linux distributions in virtualbox to check out how they look and feel because I might switch from windows 10 in near future and I heard good things about linux recently, especially about games due to Valve's Proton. I really liked Fedora as the primary distro I would go for and I like the look of gnome in it, but i could not figure out how it could have such a horrible user experience in 2024. What am i talking about.. Firstly, there are no min/max icons on the windows. Only close. So you have to sherlock your way through the internet and find out you need a third party extension that will enable this basic functionality, which has been part of any mainstream operating system for decades as absolutely basic standard for window managers and absolutely no person in the world who has ever used a computer would expect NOT to have it available in their operating system. Second, it has a top bar that is like on a mobile phone and has no real functionality on desktop(ie. it shows time and not much else). In order to see the task bar, you have to press top-left icon that will bring it up. And it is not a task bar, it is just a dock ala apple mac os. So in order to switch between applications, you have to use tab or get into this desktop section by clicking on said icon(possibly win-key or some other functional key). This takes so much time and requires so many actions that I am probably simply too retarded to imagine a person who came up with such behavior and on top of that other people deemed it to be so good to make it the default behavior in the entire gnome project. When you sherlock through the internet yet again, and waste many more time, yet again, you will find there is yet another third party extension what will allow you to transform this hidden dock into constantly visible dock, maybe even make it look like a proper task bar by removing that useless top bar. These are mere two examples. I simply cannot imagine how in 2024 linux is still so incredibly stupid when it comes to desktop. I've been using computers since 1996, am no it/tech newbie, but this just takes my breath away. Can someone explain why that is going on? And yeah, I tried KDE as well. That was issue-less from the get-go, like any desktop environment is supposed to be. My gripe is with gnome due to its popularity. I would expect it to be long dead when the user experience is worse than a $2 philipine whore.
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