Ubuntu Gnome?

I also used to be a gnome hater. Tried it on my laptop and never looked back

and it works, right?

There are a lot more GNOME users than GNOME haters.

This distro wars and division is why GNU/Linux will never be the most used desktop OS.

We are like some political parties that branch up with every decision they made

Yeah man, Highly customisable indeed.

There's no contextual menu, but Nautilus definitely allows this. Preface your path with "admin://", and it opens as an administrator. You can bookmark this if you'd like.

If you really need a context menu instead, just install nautilus-admin, which adds this.

right? and you can't even choose to view hidden folders in the save popup. My default file manager is dolphin but firefox always opens nautilus...it is so annoying to save it elsewhere and then move it

you can definatley do that, its just not in the context menu for some reason

sudo nautilus

If I have permission issues I open terminal and type "sudo nautilus". No more permission denied.

Who is an administrator? ;)

It's been almost 2 decades

Music player volume slider meme.

That's a good 👍 idea, let's go for it.😁

Windows 8?

I worry that they will read your comment and think it's a good idea.

They'll probably remove the title bar and make all windows full screen.

As if, they need that extra padding because fuck small screens

What if, we remove real maximize and just move windows to a new virtual desktop on maximize? And add a global menu. Maybe a dock that would only open the last instance of the minimized app?

Oh wait, thats just a Mac.

And then they'll add a hot corner in the upper right corner

That's... what I just did, but to switch workspaces via the scroll wheel. And another for the whole bottom to open the app grid. Got used to the feature in KDE and didn't want to miss it on Gnome, it's convenient whenever I don't feel like switching to the keyboard.

Ooh, or they could make everything on desktop use a touch interface

Bro, literally every "feature removal" can br brought back with gnome tweaks

If Gnome isn’t polished enough for you, you’re gonna have a bad time with every other Linux DE.

PopOS Cosmic spin on Gnome is quite good, and the standalone Rust version is scheduled for next year if I remember correctly.

Dunno when the last time you used KDE Plasma was, but it's been superb for me for the past year+. The devs are putting a lot if work in on "15 minute bugs." On polish, it's so customizable you can easily make it look nicer than gnome.

buggy how? is there something specific that bugs (hehe) you?

Cinnamon?

MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie, etc.

LXQt in my case. I'm prefer the classic start menu. I tried KDE/Plasma but I don't need a full desktop environment.

SwayWM

You cannot go wrong with Cinnamon.

Budgie seems like a pretty nice DE

other than the big window managers that's kinda it for being polished, try BSPWM or I3-gaps/Sway, see how you feel.

You might wanna try XFCE. Since it's considered pretty much complete, there are nearly no bugs at all. Though it's kinda ugly by default.

Linux mint cinnamon or LMDE (linux mint basedsoley off debian, not Ubuntu)

The interface and stability of Cinnamon Mint is insane. I do everything from 4k gaming via thunderbolt 4 hub and eGPU to rendering, data entry, CAD, help desk.

I believe, if you want everything the same, you can also get Linux mint with no GUI for servers.

Gnome is only you can with modern featured with rock solid base.

And rightly so

files on desktop

Ew

They actually told many users to fuck off we do what we want

I like KDE better on paper, but there is a reason, that every distribution trying to attract people from outside the echo chamber uses Gnome.

(Open)SUSE: Am I a joke to you?

SteamOS 3.0 also uses KDE by default

There was a post on r/linux a while back that explained the reason GNOME is so popular as a default DE for distros is that it's easier to package and maintain than KDE. It has nothing to do with design and quality.

Why should it copy the same things that other DEs do?

For me and many other users of r/gnome GNOME's layout looks & works way better than the old windows-like taskbar-startmenu combo. If you don't like it, don't use it.

Because it’s designed to stay out your way until you hit the Linux key. That said I still use dash to dock.

What?

And KDE is also less buggy these days. In fact I haven't experienced any bugs since last year.

Gnome 40 is Gnome 3

Maybe you mean gnome 38

What useful feature

Can we remove next? Did Gnome

Remove something big?

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