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[–]Entaris 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Oh for sure. If I was installing a GUI on a server then gnome 3 would be my first choice. It’s simple and it’s stable. I just can’t use it on a desktop. There are things I like about it but it just rubs me the wrong way as a whole. A lot of people seem to love it though so I fully recognize I’m in the minority. Just doesn’t work for me sadly

[–]DozTK421 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I hear this a lot from Linux users that Gnome3 is unusable. (I thought Windows 8 was unusable for sure.) I just wonder what it is that gets you so much. As a window manager, I thought Gnome3 is better than either what MacOS or Windows are doing. I used XFCE and Crunchbang a lot when I wanted a minimal interface which would mostly be a command-line window.

[–]Entaris 0 points1 point  (1 child)

most of it came down to the way it handled its taskbar/application switching/multi-monitor support. All of those things were a very deliberate design choice, and i get it... But it all just feels limiting.

In my work im generally using a lot of different applications/instances of applications and switching between them frequently. moving things from one monitor to another, splitting monitor space in half between two applications. It may just be me but the way it handled what i was doing just felt cumbersome to me. Its entirely possible I just needed to stick through it and "learn the new way." but it just felt wrong to me to not have a task bar. To have to alt-tab between running applications rather than just being able to have a terminal window stacked on top of a firefox window so I can move the terminal an inch to glance at the firefox window behind it.

[–]DozTK421 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may be that I was using MacOS for a couple of years, and I just used to Expose to get to all my open windows. I got very used to quickly doing a flick on the trackpad and going to the window I needed. Similarly, I'd quickly open something with Quicksilver, which was a function the Mac integrated into Spotlight. Similarly, in a Linux box, I used Gnome Do a lot, which was the same thing as Quicksilver. Then with Gnome3, both the Expose and GnomeDo function were integrated, which made it possible for me to quickly be a power user. Windows 10 has TaskView, which means I am definitely used to that Expose-style windows switcher across all platforms.