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When KDE 4 came out, I switched to Gnome 2. When Gnome 3 came out in (checks notes) 2011, I switched to XFCE. And that was that. I have a minimal taskbar at the bottom of my screen, with a little tray and a little button for the whisker menu. But I usually launch that using hyper + space. It gets out of my way, it gets shit done, I love it. Let's hope that it will survive the Wayland transition.

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I don't have as much hatred towards Gnome 3 like everyone else does.

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not defending it. I was a little heart broken as I really liked Gnome 2. However, I tried to be optimistic with their plans overall.

(I think the early days on Gnome 3 featured something call Gnome Legacy to keep that Gnome 2-ish feel. I likely stayed on that for a while)

I still use Gnome 3 today... but Xfce would certainly be my second choice.

I don't have "hatred" towards Gnome3. I use it for friends and families desktops, they seem to like it. I have also rolled out about ~20 Gnome3-based desktops for my employer.

That said, there are definitely areas were Gnome could be improved. Some of them are understandable and probably stem from a lack funding / devs. Others less so, like removing the options to scale / stretch / center the wallpaper w/o installing "Gnome tweaks".

Yeah - I find it a little frustrating that the first thing to do after installing Gnome3 is to install Tweaks.

It's not even the chore of installing it, Ansible will mostly do that for me. It's that I can't comprehend why something as basic as fundamental wallpaper config is not part of the normal GUI. The reasoning for that one is beyond me.

I did exactly the same series of switches.

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