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Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I'm not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I'm sharing it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What are these extremely flashy animations you speak of? I think you're just making stuff up. I've never seen any of these long animations. I click on an app icon and it opens immediately. I click close and it closes immediately.

Gnome is extremely productive. It's a big part of why most Linux workstations use it. It's stable, keyboard-focused, gets out of my way, and has the best workspaces/virtual desktop implementation I've come across. I use it for my work. Getting my work done the Windows way is so cumbersome in comparison.

You gonna provide a source on your "completely reinventing the wheel every 2-3 years" claim, or will your next comment contain another new lie?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Use XFCE for a day and then come back here and talk about performance. Not that I like XFCE's crude approach to thing but it is indeed fast and BS free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Everything opens up immediately. My PCs perform well. I dunno where you got the weird animations lie from.

I've used XFCE plenty. XFCE would hinder my productivity massively, so nah I'm going to pass on that.

Still nothing on the "gnome massively reinvents the wheel every 2-3 years" thing? Not surprised, considering it was BS.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Still nothing on the “gnome massively reinvents the wheel every 2-3 years” thing? Not surprised, considering it was BS.

Removing desktop icons, forcing the activities view as default at some point etc. do you need more examples?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So your proof of Gnome "reinventing the wheel every 2-3 years" is them removing desktop icons (good riddance btw), idk, 7 years ago or something? And activities view (amazing for productivity and I wish others would catch up to Gnome here) well over a decade ago?

Yes. I will need examples. Because those aren't examples of what you said - show me how using Gnome is night and day different to 2-3 years ago, and show me how using it then was night and day different to 4-6 years ago.