tiling wm requires time to set it up, most people aren’t gonna do that. also things like automounting and configuring screens without having to touch a config file is much appreciated. imagine using a laptop, going somewhere and you plug in a screen and for it to work nicely you have to touch a config file. not very convenient.
You need to setup say bspwm and dwm, sure, but i3 just works. Also if we are going to talk about most people, most people also aten’t going to deal with remembering keybindings. They will just want to click around, so Gnome is also inconvenient.
For clarification I’m not saying Gnome is objectively bad and you shouldn’t use it, however I personally feel like it falls short on some parts as a DE.
To be ussable Gnome requires time to set up too. Looks like Gnome is for some kind of tablet laptop hybrids. On a pc it is a pain to use out of the box.
tiling wm requires time to set it up, most people aren’t gonna do that. also things like automounting and configuring screens without having to touch a config file is much appreciated. imagine using a laptop, going somewhere and you plug in a screen and for it to work nicely you have to touch a config file. not very convenient.
You need to setup say bspwm and dwm, sure, but i3 just works. Also if we are going to talk about most people, most people also aten’t going to deal with remembering keybindings. They will just want to click around, so Gnome is also inconvenient. For clarification I’m not saying Gnome is objectively bad and you shouldn’t use it, however I personally feel like it falls short on some parts as a DE.
To be ussable Gnome requires time to set up too. Looks like Gnome is for some kind of tablet laptop hybrids. On a pc it is a pain to use out of the box.