I like gnome

FUCK

pointless fighting

ALL MY HOMIES

recognize that choice is good and what works for some folk won’t work for others. some people want a highly polished experience right out of the box, even if it can’t be customized a ton, and that’s fine. some devs want a UI toolkit that is solid, polished and guarantees that your app will look the same no matter the user’s environment, and that’s fine.

(i use KDE btw)

Laughs in xfce

Good that we have choices, no? (I use GNOME btw)

I mean GNOME is.....fine. I don't use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I'd just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.

This is Linux. It's all about choice. Run what you like. It's your goddamn computer. And that's what we all love together.

I hate GNOME not because it looks bad (though some parts do) but because of their ways of doing stuff. Best example imo is libadwaita and client side decorations.

I really don't like gnome personally but I'm glad it exists cause other people canlike things I don't

Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.

I don't know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick

Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.

Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.

Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.

EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.

I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.

CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.

Fucking love KDE dude. Plasma6 is my jam.

I use niri btw

They explicitly banned AI generated code from their extensions if that skews your mind.

Cinnamon is where it is at. Also, I am happy you found something you like. 👍

I don't hate GNOME but I dislike GTK a lot

I've just switched to KDE and it's great, but it has about the same amount of cons as gnome.

I gave Cosmic a go recently and it's great, but not quite ready yet. I think in a few updates time, I'll be switching. It's kind of like a cross-over of gnome and KDE and addresses a lot of the long standing pain points of both.

I've been bashing my head against sway for days I just wanna go back to i3 😭

Konqi is my favorite dragon

Gnome is great! My go to... I don't understand people sayin it uses too much ram. My 2011 macbook (has 4gb ram) running arch with vanilla gnome only uses around 700mb at desktop. Not that bad.

too big but consistent paddings vs. compact but inconsistent paddings

using sway btw.

KDE is pretty enough that I'm willing to put up with my decade-old laptop freezing every time I switch windows

Cinnamon is reliable enough that I'm willing to put up with it being kinda ugly on my desktop PC

I still don't know enough about Linux to have any opinions deeper than aesthetic differences

that's kool, I guess

Over the past year I’ve gradually switched from Gnome to Plasma but it’s so fucking clunky I do miss Gnome. I feel like it’s in the right place but it just needs rebuilding from the ground up in the modern world.

Preach!