McGovern: Handing over [LWN.net]

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 15, 2022 20:54 UTC (Tue) by clump (subscriber, #27801)
In reply to: McGovern: Handing over by eharris
Parent article: McGovern: Handing over

Well this discussion is going downhill fast. Getting things back on track, I've used GNOME for nearly twenty years. With tweaks and add-ons, it suits me quite well. I'm thankful for GNOME, and for the other desktop environments.

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McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 15, 2022 21:43 UTC (Tue) by bartoc (guest, #124262) [Link]

Yeah, I've started to really grow used to gnome, and prefer it strongly to windows or mac nowadays. Even without any addons (my workflow tends to revolve around using search to launch apps, I don't need an applications menu or anything).

I have small gripes, like the on screen keyboard not being that good, or the lack of pen input support (this is actually really hard to do well, so I don't blame them, Windows is _wayyyyyy_ ahead here because of efforts with early convertible pen-tablets). Also in vertical orientations the icons in the activity menu become rather too small imo.

I've found Gtk3 and 4 to be pleasant development environments too (and gnome-builder is really sweet)

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 16, 2022 2:42 UTC (Wed) by jebba (guest, #4439) [Link]

By default I set up XFCE for desktop users as it is lightest and most straightforward. The most requested desktop I get is for Gnome, followed by a few KDE requests. So from my real-world experience, most users choose Gnome, fwiw. So they've done a good job there. I use Openbox on my own workstations.

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 17, 2022 2:47 UTC (Thu) by timrichardson (subscriber, #72836) [Link]

Me too. In the last three years, it seems to me that the gnome project has become less insular. The dogmatic approach and cold welcome for external and community contributions has changed a lot. Ubuntu's move was a vote of confidence, and Fedora is starting to see itself as a gnome flagship which should have appeal to more mainstream users; it's really hard to imagine that if Gnome didn't enable it. These are I think cultural changes before they are technical changes, and without knowing for sure, Neil McGovern must have something to do with it.