[peakaboo]

Such a weird article. Gnome is an awesome desktop, and I can only assume the article author is used to Windows.

No desktop icons? Yeah we don't use that anymore, it's not 1990. We type one or two chars in the program name and press enter. If you want icons, you can have it through extensions, but it's a very old paradigm and you really should stop clicking icons to start programs. There is no need.

Gnome has a single button for Do Not Disturb, and now you have no notifications from any programs bothering you while working. How cool is that? Being able to actually focus.

I could go on but I don't actually care enough to do so. Someone being wrong on the Internet is OK. :)

[crubier]

> you really should stop clicking icons to start programs

Yeah… That’s the whole problem with Linux UX… Answering users’ legitimate feedback with « you should stop doing this way because it’s bad » lol.

And then Linux champions get surprised that everyone uses MacOS or even Windows… That thing has been going on for 20years now, nothing changed.

[fulalas]

I assume you didn't read whole the article. By the end it says the author (who happens to be me) is a Linux developer who work in Porteus distro. It doesn't matter anyway. What matters is that basically all desktop environments and also Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS have native support to desktop icons. And it's not a surprise that many major distros ship GNOME with desktop icons extension installed/enabled by default.

I tried to be clear about this 'paradigm' thing but it seems I failed. There's nothing wrong with changing the paradigm. The problem is that GNOME did that in a less efficient way, although claiming the contrary.