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by MrDrMcCoy 267 days ago
Meh. I haven't seriously considered GTK ecosystems since 3 got released. Between the increased usage of screen real estate, feature minimalism as a philosophy, becoming infested with ever more JavaScript that hampers performance, the continuous API instability that strangles extension development, and "my way or the highway" approach to workflows... I just don't get why people like it.
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While not mentioned in the post, there is a KDE flavor of the same project called Aurora/kinoite. While it doesn't get the LTS treatment (IMO it would have been the better pick over Bluefin), it's still viable.

https://github.com/ublue-os/aurora

https://getaurora.dev/

Kinoite is not from the same project tho, it's the fedora KDE spin.
Well, everyone's different. It's great that Linux caters to all of us.

I prefer Gnome because it does what I need but mostly just disappears and gets out of my way.

I used to love fiddling and customising everything. Plenty of options for that if that's your thing, like KDE.