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Gnome is an excellent desktop. It's focused on serious minimalism, accesiblity and on getting-the-heck-out-of-your-way when you are doing stuff.

Lovin' it. I'm very happy they broke away from the 'traditional interface paradigms'. I always have to suppress a giggle when I see people using other desktop juggling their windows, playing "Window Manager" all the time.

Gnome gets rid of that. Just use all app in full screen and never touch your mouse again.

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I don't like fullscreen applications. I don't like tiling window managers. I have large screens so I can see more and do more not less. The last thing I want is full screen.

Full screen is terrible when multitasking. It's usually why I have to put my phone down and do something on my desktop computer instead.

It has a sane half-tile option as well. You rarely need to divide up the screen more than that.

Actually as super ultrawide becomes more common I think thirds and fourths will be required

Gnome has been the only Linux DE I find tolerable. At first I was bothered and installed a bunch of extensions to tweak stuff but then I realised it was all meaningless modifications to make it look like other DEs and that I can be just as productive on stock gnome.

I find KDE approach more suits my taste.

The trend for bigger margins in Gnome and MacOS (to unify Desktop UI toward mobile UX) is triggering my OCD and looks childish and unusable (lost of space and distraction for the eyes).

KDE customization options are immense. With minimal effort and without applying a global custom theme you can change window decoration, color theme and use Breeze Dark/Light as a default.

I put the taskbar on the top, resize it and the result is pretty close to what I am used to work with (Mac OS X), simple dock to the mix and customize some keyboard keys and voala - professional user interface:)

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