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Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up π
Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It's unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I've ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.
I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it's default on many distros, people install "linux" and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.
I use it and like it. No strong opinion here, it just works well for me.
Well, I use it, I like it, and I can confidently say it's not for everyone
You gotta think the gnome way. Like, for example, I don't feel the absence of the minimize button because I adopted gnome's workspace-based flow
It doesn't get in my way, I don't even feel its existence most of the time. Gnome 3 sucked and definitely got in my way but beware that I am talking about gnome 4x here.
Context: I'm an i3 and plasma user depenending on my machine with one exception.
I find Gnome to be in the way 100% of the time, until I put the mist and konquer down and start using the touchscreen. Its a nice DE for touch oriented devices, but it really sucks to navigate with moist and keybread imho.
Edit: the one time I don't fix my spelling someone comes along and says something. I'm gonna make it worse π
Ah, yes, the classic β¦
noise and keyboard
moist and keyboard
morse and keyboard
Re: edit
Yes! Embrace the typo. Elevate it to art!
Gnome also has a few nice things that I miss whenever I try kde or cosmic. It really depends on what you need from your DE.
GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It's like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.
Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.
Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.
I don't completely hate MacOS, it's pretty nice IMO.
GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.
π Looks like you're trying to hold B! Would you like help with that?
I'm not sure why people enable any notifications on their desktop in the first place.
To be notified of things that they want to know about.
"You are technically correct."
"The BEST kind of correct."
Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don't remember setting it up. Maybe it's a standard feature that was added at some point. It's honestly pretty great though.
KDE turns on do not disturb mode when a program is in full screen mode by default.
You can test this by binding DnD to a button (preferable Meta key + unused letter like F), opening a program in full screen mode and toggling DnD.
This feature can be disabled in settings.
I think it's a default. It also tells me how many notifications I missed after closing the game.
I see you stopped playing because your game crashed.
You got 76 notifications in the 20 hours you were playing. Take a shower, drink some water, and get some sleep you slacker.I believe the notifications for donation on my KDE laptop (running Bazzite) are yearly so... hopefully you won't be seeing it often
Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won't get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn't do that as well.
Don't be a loser with no defuser!
What distro? I've been using GNOME on Ubuntu and Debian for the past five years and I don't recall ever seeing a donation notification.
That is because it's new to gnome 49, debian and Ubuntu aren't bleeding edge to have them
Arch user here who enjoys Gnome because I started my Linux journey over a decade ago with Ubuntu. Tell me which desktop environment I should be using. Which desktop environment will make me question why Iβve spent so much time with Gnome?
If Gnome has worked for you the past ten years then keep using it.
KDE Plasma
GNOME is a great desktop environment. Ignore the people here who are whining; there's always a bunch in any DE-related Linux post, regardless of the DE being discussed.
But, just to add to the discussion, KDE is the only real alternative as far as feature parity is concerned (that isn't just a fork).
Just use Linux Mint.