[qalmakka]

GNOME? Don't even think about it. The next version of the file manager will probably remove icons all together in favour of a single, big button that opens a random file in your home directory.

GNOME is that user interface where out of the box everything is super eye-candy and cool, and yet you can't really do anything unless you install a billion extensions and swap out a few builtin programs for some other that look like shite but at least have the basic features everyone expects.

GNOME has been putting the entirety of its efforts and focus on UI only for the last 11 years, and that has cause the whole UX to become a total nightmare. GNOME 2 was incredible, it was a pinnacle in UX and it's a shame the GNOME devs got carried away and destroyed basically everything in their attempt at beating Apple at its own game.

[philliphaydon]

I don’t understand GNOME. I try it but I feel like I’m fighting it to use my computer. Then I start looking for extensions.

KDE Plasma on the other hand I can just install. Visually be annoyed. But it just works. And I don’t need to install a bunch of extensions.

[hollerith]

>Visually be annoyed.

The visual design of KDE was annoying and distracting to me, too. (Ditto the other non-GNOME DEs I tried.) If I had continued to use it instead of abandoning it after 5 minutes, it would've become much less annoying, but some of the annoyance would've persisted indefinitely.

So I've been using GNOME for the last year and a half. In many ways it is worse than the GUI of MacOS or Windows, but it looks great.