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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Personally, I'm disgusted by the "matter of fact" tone GNOME devs take to criticism only to be wrong in the end.

It's like, they dig their heels in so deep on dumb shit like "the dock should be on the side because vertical space is at a premium!" and then renege after years of users telling them they're wrong. Literally whoever is floating ideas like that on their team needs to be fired and blacklisted, but unfortunately they're probably promoted.

They also can't be arsed to include proper settings, so it's up to everyone else to pick up their slack.

At some point, it starts to feel like weaponized incompetence. I genuinely do not want GNOME's culture to pervade more parts of the free software ecosystem.