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With how horrible Gnome 3 is to use I guess nothing can be worse, though I'm sure just like gnome 3 it will also randomly crash every 15 minutes.

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Anecdotally (1.5 years of usage) Gnome 3 doesn't crash.

The trick to not have gnome 3 crash (at least when I was on Ubuntu 18.04?) was to NOT connect it to heavy online accounts like if you have three google accounts all of which are perpetually teetering on the edge of your storage capacity of 15GB (or 17, if you did the security checkup) then the "factories" of Gnome will work themselves to death trying to synchronize everything. But we can't tell people "Just don't connect gnome to any online account if $special_conditions" feels like a gotcha.

Does anyone even use gnome online services?

I've had it connected to Business Google Drive subscription with a ton (>1TB) of data on it. Never had any problems. Didn't ask it to sync locally though.

Don't know which exact version it was, but I was using Ubuntu 20.04 at the time.

I for sure don't connect it to anything. Nice to know it's calling for troubles to do it. Thanks.

>Does anyone even use gnome online services?

I do have two google accounts and one MS enabled in GOA.

I have it connected to 4 accounts with a lot of data/events, over ~3 years nothing happened. I did encounter crashes initially due to some nvidia driver issue :| and another time due to my ram stick, otherwise it's more stable than macos.

What desktop/os do you use as your daily driver?

XFCE on RHEL8 (work) and Fedora 32 (home)

After having tried Gnome and KDE, I switched back to XFCE last year, and I don't regret the decision.

XFCE here, for the same reason - I've been trying out Gnome since the early 2000s and it's always been a bug-ridden, bloated pig. Meanwhile XFCE is simple, lightweight and it just works.

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