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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] kava@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Gnome is an opinionated desktop environment and that turns some people off. But it's bold enough to make some design decisions and have a limited scope. KDE tries to be another Windows alternative.

Of course, you could go with a tiling window manager but my vote goes to Gnome. I've had a very smooth experience on Gnome for the last couple years.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, Gnome is like the Apple of the Linux world. The devs have the same kind of “we know better than you do” mentality towards design. The issue tracker is a lot of “hey the OS won’t let me do [edge-case scenario that an OS should be able to do, but which most users won’t bother with]” followed by the devs going “Gnome isn’t designed to support [edge-case scenario]. Bug report closed.” Like the devs have a very “it’s not a bug; It’s a feature” mentality, and anyone who runs into that bug must be using the OS “wrong”.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

we know better than you do” mentality towards design

And I agree with them. I think people should pick whatever desktop environment needs the least amount of customization for their needs. Keep it simple. If Gnome works out of the box, use it. If KDE works out of the box, use it.

[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago

This is Gnomes biggest advantage to be honest. They have a singular vision of how they want their product to work and they aren't concerned with edge uses.

I enjoy elements of so many DEs but I keep coming back to gnome because it's just so well executed over the others.