[kstrauser]

Gnome feels like what you’d get if someone read a lot about macOS and wanted to emulate it, but had never actually used it. Gnome makes it very easy for new users to get started and very hard for experienced users to adjust it. Mac makes it easy for new users, but still gives power users room to grow.

[pjmlp]

Specially in the what concerns the developer experience of macOS, regarding frameworks, IDE and languages.

On GNOME the documentation seems to have stagnated, then we had Anjuta, now GNOME Builder (which tries to be XCode like), a UI design tool that is being re-written from scratch, the various frameworks don't seem to compose, and then each binding does their own stuff, only adapts a couple of Gtk tutorial samples to their own language.

Naturally being GNU/Linux, everything that falls out of the UI only has POSIX or GNU/Linux specific C APIs to refer back to, yet another experience completely devoid of how things work on macOS (there is no Foundation, Accelerate, Core...).

[anthk]

Gstreamer, Cairo...

[pjmlp]

Depends on the year, if you haven't been paying attention they are on their way out, and then we have again the issue of documentation, tooling, language bindings,...

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> Gnome feels like what you’d get if someone read a lot about macOS and wanted to emulate it, but had never actually used it.

I find this statement humorous because I've said much the same thing about Linux Desktop GUIs in general. "It's like they were made by someone who's only ever had a GUI described to them in an email". Compared to a system like the original Macintosh or RiscOS that thought hard about how to abstract things for a graphical display and a mouse, or even Windows that just copied as much of that as they could get away with, it's really quite terrible.

[alisonkisk]

Even Linus Torvalds and Debian stopped resisting GNOME 3 and agreed that it's manageable for an experienced user to configure it or their needs.