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Comment by Zardoz84 | Hacker News Reader

The main big problem with Gnome 3 is that if you not like the decisions that the developers take of how your desktop must be, you only can fuck yourself.

At least with KDE you have freedom to change things at your discretion.

Also, Gnome 3 more stable ?? WTF ? I saw more broken desktops and WTFs with Gnome that with KDE. Even I saw KDE working with a buggy X11 driver when Gnome simply fails on a miserable way.

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I feel like if someone thinks they'll try Linux and they pick a Gnome 3 distro to test, they won't stick around or won't appreciate Linux for the reasons many of us do. Gnome 3 is basically everything I don't like about Windows or OSX but for Linux.

I feel this way a lot about Gnome, and even Ubuntu's attempt at "Unity".

It wants to be Mac. It wants to be Windows. In the end it's like all of the worst parts of both, made in to a mutant of dis-congeniality. They want the familiarity and user experience of both, and in the end capture neither.

Unity at least had an exciting purpose behind it. I have no idea what the Gnome team were thinking when they designed 3.

I actually quite like some of the ideas in Deepin though

I think it is more about the underlying "paternalism" than any specific UI/UX design.

Damn it, i have seen a comment from a prominent Gnome developer basically stating that users are idiots. This based on some usability testing that was done back in the day, apparently.

So expect more and more out of Gnome, and by extension Freedesktop, to be about putting users in padded cells...

Gnome is running on wayland now by default though.

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