Gnome replaces Unity

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Paul Smith schreef op 14-10-2017 20:20:

> Yes there are annoying things about GNOME 3 but they are easily
> solvable: Tweak Tool should be a standard part of the configuration
> rather than a separate tool.  There is a wretched amount of whitespace
> taken up by the title bars in the default theme due to the ridiculous
> border size settings (but this can be fixed with a small CSS override 
> in
> your home directory, or using a different theme).

I am not sure if you covered everything, but this is precisely the sort 
of stuff that Ubuntu should do.

> I just hope they
> don't do too much tweaking and just leave it the way it should be.

I think a distribution's role is explicitly tweaking, not changing 
everything 180 degrees around.

> The
> Ubuntu GNOME folks have been doing a great job.

Sure but how much does that differ from regular Gnome 3?

> The above is all, obviously, MHO.  Try them for yourself, it's easy to
> do with VMs etc.  I just can't let all this hate for GNOME 3 to go
> unchallenged: there are real users out there, who are not involved with
> GNOME 3 development, who think it's the best option.

So how many?

I can look it up but there are also people at e.g. Fedora complaining 
that it doesn't ship KDE as a real option.

Red Hat and Fedora ship Gnome, so lots of people are simply in Gnome 
because those distros ship it.

Personally I have just not encountered anything that was remotely 
suitable except KDE, and the Cinnamon people have just done a much 
better job at creating the polish and making sure every little part does 
what it needs to do.

If I was forced to use anything other than KDE it would probably be 
Cinnamon.

Would hate it though.

Currently actually..... using Windows 10.

And you know what: even though Microsoft brings its own slew of problems 
(mostly the forced updates nowadays) I am really grateful that I don't 
have:

- problems with multiple displays
- difficulty with "notepad"
- difficulty with the annoying KDE "run" dialog
- difficulty with changing audio device

- a calendar that is hardly readable
- a windows switcher that I need to patch before it is useful

- endless quest for themes that are okayish

And that's just the Desktop Environment, from the top of my head.

I could go on for a while if I started digging...

Oh I am bothered greatly with Windows 10 explorer and those 
automatically populated "quick link" entries. I have learned to ignore 
them. (I don't want dynamically changing menus).