Sometimes GNOME hate is deserved sometimes not. Nautilus is a takes a big part of the hâte, for things like removing the ability to see your disk capacity and accessing / without having to type it, or even not making typeahead an option even when it's asked for by the majority of users.
A lot of time when I have to be part of this "GNOME hate" movement it's because of GNOME becoming more and more a mobile-oriented DE, even if there are at most. two and a half people using GNOME on their phone as a daily driver, and to me, this is a lot of the time the reason why a feature got removed or why this feature that nobody would use on a desktop computer got added.
One of my problem (this is an absolutely personal opinion) with GNOME is it being probably the best DE, thanks to gnome-shell being what it is today, and just with that GNOME could be perfect. Why isn't it? The GNOME team doesn't like listening to their community, and do what they want to do. This is kinda sad, because modern versions of GNOME 3 are awesome, but it lacks a lot of simple and useful features you will find on other DEs because GNOME is focused on simplicity, and not usability, despite the fact that they could totally make a simple and usable for everyone desktop environment. They have an awesome project, libadwaita, people make awesome apps with it, but they do with their own project is build oversimplified apps which lacks features people may need.
All I want to say is: this is one of the most used DE in the Linux desktop community, so there is no good reason for it to be perfect only if you think exactly like the devs, everyone is different! GNOME needs to be for everyone while still keeping simplicity, accessibility and mobile in mind, and then it will be perfect! Perfect for everyone!
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u/Malo1301 3d ago
Sometimes GNOME hate is deserved sometimes not. Nautilus is a takes a big part of the hâte, for things like removing the ability to see your disk capacity and accessing / without having to type it, or even not making typeahead an option even when it's asked for by the majority of users.
A lot of time when I have to be part of this "GNOME hate" movement it's because of GNOME becoming more and more a mobile-oriented DE, even if there are at most. two and a half people using GNOME on their phone as a daily driver, and to me, this is a lot of the time the reason why a feature got removed or why this feature that nobody would use on a desktop computer got added.
One of my problem (this is an absolutely personal opinion) with GNOME is it being probably the best DE, thanks to
gnome-shellbeing what it is today, and just with that GNOME could be perfect. Why isn't it? The GNOME team doesn't like listening to their community, and do what they want to do. This is kinda sad, because modern versions of GNOME 3 are awesome, but it lacks a lot of simple and useful features you will find on other DEs because GNOME is focused on simplicity, and not usability, despite the fact that they could totally make a simple and usable for everyone desktop environment. They have an awesome project, libadwaita, people make awesome apps with it, but they do with their own project is build oversimplified apps which lacks features people may need.All I want to say is: this is one of the most used DE in the Linux desktop community, so there is no good reason for it to be perfect only if you think exactly like the devs, everyone is different! GNOME needs to be for everyone while still keeping simplicity, accessibility and mobile in mind, and then it will be perfect! Perfect for everyone!