After many explorations, hesitations and tribulations; and after having thought that an Arch derivative with KDE is the way; and after having later considered that more desktop stability would be advisable, and having a fling for Ubuntu MATE 21.04, a quick experiment showed me that Ubuntu MATE cannot be trusted, and that maybe I should...

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.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        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?