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Normally these pages are filled with people who prefer old gnome. I thought I'd weigh in and say I prefer gnome 3 by a significant margin.

* I don't use border click targets to resize, I hold alt + click to resize / move windows.

* I use "expose" like functionality to switch windows or alt tab.

* Nautalis isn't great, but I don't spend much time in there anyway.

* I prefer the gnome 3 launcher (Windows key + start typing), than the menu system

I barely see gnome, it lets the applications take centre stage, and I spend all my time in them anyway.

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GNOME is very keyboard centric and it is a joy to use :)

Nautilus improved a lot the past years. There was a big backslash due to the removal of find-as-you-type but the new search instantly works as type-ahead-find inside the current directory or recursive. Special thanks to Carlos Soriano!

I also thank Red Hat (Debarshi Ray and David King) for the transparency feature of gnome-terminal. I maintain myself a package for Arch with the required patches because I want it.

Sorry, did you just say you liked gnome 3 yet told us that the file manager isn't great?

I use mod + left/right to move my windows on Mate. Alt tab still works fine. Mod + r shows the run box which shows all the same entries as the menu. I used gnome 2 for many many years but also kde 3.5 (Konqueror did everything!) so the modern gnome 3 experience seem dysfunctional to me. I even used gnome 1 - must have been on RedHat 6.2?

One thing I can't stand on the modern gnome apps is the hamburger menu and popout menus that are impossible to spawn from the keyboard. Eg. alt-f won't bring up that menu so you have to fumble around with the mouse.

But thank goodness gnome exists, whether in gnome2-forever guise or the "modern" (I would say less-useful) 3.

> I barely see gnome

This is key for me. A good OS (in this case DE) gets out of the way. With none-to-little effort, recent Gnome does this well, and it's not something that Win/Mac are keen on.

Seconded... I was on kde for years and while productive, I couldn't just get the feeling that it got out of the way

Decided to give gnome a try a couple of months ago in a VM and liked it enough that now I have an older version of GNOME on kde neon

With a few shell extensions, GNOME fits my workflow and just gets out of the way that I don't even notice it .... And, to me, is the highest praise that any software can get.

>>I barely see gnome

see this is my problem with gnome3, it absolutely insists on being seen: the launcher takes over the entire screen, so does the "expose", switching workspaces with the mouse? whole screen. Even the alt-tab pop-up is comparatively enormous.

Yes, I use GNOME 3 and feel similarly. It just gets out of my way and lets me work.

I also have a lot of appreciation for GNOME driving Wayland adoption. I know it's been a bumpy road, but desktop Linux is much better for it, and things are better now than they ever were in the past.

Unlike many long time Linux users who post here, I really do not look back fondly on the days of twm or fluxbox or something. GNOME has all the little QOL features that help me when I need them, without getting in the way during daily operation.

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