Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up 😅
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It's like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.
Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.
Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.
I don't completely hate MacOS, it's pretty nice IMO.
GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.