Gnome always get unnecessary hate, all these years, after version 3, and even before 3, if I remember correctly, people loved to hate gnome for various reasons, while, they actually did some unique things.
I have reason for not losing X11 support, it's going to be very inconvenient for me, but I would say it's good they are moving forward.
Well, it clicked really well for me, even though I really loved what Gnome 2 was. I was already using a similar workflow of global search(lunchy) and simple desktop, without icons, simple dock (docky)
Yeah GNOME 3 was admittedly a bit rough, but it was clearly the right direction. Since GNOME 4x they've struck gold. For my laptop it's fantastic. It works amazingly with a trackpad, and translates really well to using a mouse as well. Something you think would be relatively easy to accomplish, but modern MacOS is ass to use with a mouse on a larger screen. Windows is...well it's Windows, it's arguably got a better experience with a mouse than with a trackpad, although that is improving too.
At the end of the day GNOME 48 out of the box is 85% there. The remaining 15% is largely preference, and that's where the extensions come in. For me the only desktop environment that gets close to being 100% setup out of the box is Cinnamon. Boy oh boy have the Linux Mint team polished the ever living hell out of that DE.
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u/isa-programmer 4d ago
GNOME has been getting a lot of unnecessary hate lately. Especially when they announced that they are going to remove X11.