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I missed Gnome 2, too, 10 years ago. Then... 10 years passed, and I've just gotten used to the new UI. It's not like you can't customise it to some extent, and you still have the choice of using any alternative DM that you wish.

IMHO, Gnome just works. There are other parts of the Linux ecosystem that still suck (audio...), but GNOME is IMHO not among them.

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Pipewire seems to be the solution for audio... probably. I still have issues with different users that run at the same time not being able to use the same output (i.e. having two Xorg instances in different virtual terminals output to my USB headset at the same time) which is a stupid problem to have, but TBH i'm not sure if it is a PulseAudio issue or a Pipewire issue.

It is most likely fixable, but it hasn't bothered me enough to try and figure it out.

But I don't care about Pipewire. Or Pulseaudio. Or ALSA. Or the 500 different interfaces that these tools have. I want to have an audio setup that just works without me having to know anything about it, and how these different subsystems interact etc.

I honestly miss all the 3D effects I had running on Gnome 2. It made my desktop fun to use. Modern replacements for the wobbly windows aren’t getting anywhere close to what I was used to.

KDE has most of those features, especially with wayfire.

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