[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> “GNOME’s […] excuse for not doing something is not it’s too complicated to do, but it would confuse users. The whole we know best thing is a disease.” — Linus Torvalds

Yep. Sadly a more and more pervasive idea among software developers and especially interface designers though.

Recently I've been testing the waters of Linux Desktop more than usual because I can foresee a day in the near future where Microsoft has fucked up Windows to the point that it is the lesser piece-of-shit. So far, I'm finding Fedora Silverblue to be pretty good at giving me the kind of system I want, but it of course uses GNOME. It feels like it desperately wants to be a running on a phone and I have to install extensions just to make it bearable. And don't get me started on how useless GNOME Software is.

I tried Kinoite first, of course, because KDE doesn't despise its own userbase, but sadly it had too many problems. I suppose I could just install KDE on top of Silverblue though.

Edit: Apparently there was a miscommunication. I am not looking for DE or distro suggestions.

[phendrenad2]

I don't think that Linus is right here, exactly. "We know best" isn't a problem, as long as you (A) focus on a narrow set of users and (B) actually _DO_ know what's best for those users.

GNOME fails on both of those points.

[michelledepeil]

I don't know if it's possible, but if you want a windows experience you might want to try cinnamon. If you're feeling lucky and don't mind a bit of customization, XFCE can do it too.

[Minor49er]

Seconding this. Cinnamon and XFCE are both enjoyable and have a lot of similarities to the classic Windows desktop UI.

[znpy]

XFCE is pure awesomeness.