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I think you are mistaken, only unity 8 was designed for touch screens.

Yes, Gnome 3 might feel odd. But I noted it improved my productivity once I get hang of the win-button, virtual spaces and hot corners.

Please give it a serious try

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Agreed, this is one of the common misconception of Gnome 3. Gnome 3 actually encourages keyboard driven workflow: "Ensure that every operation in your application that can be done with the mouse can also be done with the keyboard."[1].

They use 'big buttons' mostly for accessibility reasons.

Although I personally don't use Gnome 3 as DE because of lack of customizations, I agree to most of their Human Interface Guidelines[2].

1. https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/pointer-and-touch-inp...

2. https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/

Also, if you happen to be on a laptop, Gnome 3 on Wayland is a MUCH better experience for touchpad input.

Less of a gnome thing than a wayland thing, but it matters since not that many DEs support it yet.

Basically, after having moved to wayland I find it incredibly difficult to go back and use X on laptops.

The hot corners suck with multiple monitors. Moving the mouse curser to the edge of the screen should not cause all the windows to fly away. It's even worse that you need a gnome plugin to disable them.

I use the keyboard as much as practical, sometimes even the context-menu key instead of the right-mousebutton ('cause it makes a loud click sound which could wake up the little monster).

With Gnome 3 back in Ubuntu 18, I found that the Terminal's context menu has two P accelerator keys, one Preferences,another for Paste. Odd choice, now I need to walk the menu just to Paste whatever into Terminal window. It was easy in Unity.

Not sure if this has been fixed in later Ubuntu or Gnome versions.

> Please give it a serious try

Nope. Not again. Gnome3 made a simple, basic functionality, namely to delete - not reset, delete - data set by an application in a user registry nearly impossible. The only data that should be stored there is DE related configuration, but most of the gtk3 application ecosystem now stores a lot more information in dconf, and it's making one's life miserable.

No, thank you; gnome3 messed up enough things. Please choose Cinnamon, XFCE, LXDE, or even KDE instead.

That seems like a strange gripe, why would I care as a user whether configuration is stored in dconf or some config file? And even if I cared, why would that make me choose a different desktop environment? If those are your priorities, then by all means, choose a different DE, but don't extrapolate from your niche needs to everyone else.

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