GNOME 3 Controversy

Then Gnome isn't for you. It's an opiniated desktop, you have to accept its way of doing things.

Why are non-gnome users always so pissed about Gnome when there apparently are so many excellent alternatives?

I am a Gnome user and I am not at all impressed, I liked Gnome because there was 1 way to do a certain task, now they gone the windows way of being able to do the task at many places, that is confusing and complicated. Gnome was simple but complete, but I guess fashion is more important than satisfied users, just like windows and OSX. I am not looking forward to the next fad.Anybody knows a simple and consistant and complete desktop that I can use when Gnome got screwed?B.T.W. I expect neg

Gnome 2 was great. Gnome 3 was 10 steps back. And the arrogance of doing it their way just because they like to, not minding usefulness. So I just am not been using Gnome anymore. Cinnamon, which does what I want and need and doesn't get in my way. And if it does, an opened issue fixes that, quickly too.Gnome is like everything from freedesktop.org opinionated, arrogant and ignorant

Actually Gnome when it started was really good. I remember around 2000 same time as Redhat Linux 6, Gnome worked perfectly. But for some reason Gnome community wasnt satisfied so they started modifying it so much that it worked more like Windows, when they were still not satisfied they wanted to become more like Mac with fancy animations and a Dock. Which is why very few use gnome these days. Gnome people have lost their way. Now its just a community of confused people, same applies to KDE. A mo

Gnome has been around, what, 10 years? If they are randomly changing behavior just because someone feeling it would be 'better', it indicates either nobody is using Gnome, or they don't care if anyone has been using Gnome. I don't see either Mac or Windows making these sorts of minor, workflow-breaking changes and just telling people to suck it up.

Can someone please explain to me why everyone says that Gnome went off the rails? Gnome 3 to me was, except for leaving behind a lot of legacy systems, an extremely usable and downright pretty UI. Menu, search, windows, and virtual desktops all available from one keypress or one hotspot. I thought that was a stroke of genius myself.

This is an interesting read and it is truthful.I understand frustrations with GNOME. Since GNOME 3/Shell (when was that released... 2011?) came out it was met with a lot of controversy. I remember people sticking with GNOME2. There was also a GNOME legacy or something... where you can use GNOME3 but kept a lot of the familiarities to GNOME2. I think Plasma/KDE was having its own share of issues at the time, but were different issue.For me, I don't mind GNOME3 but I may not b

Isn't one of the main criticism of GNOME that it's too opinionated?

gnome3 problem is NOT js. its that a few devs took over when nobody was looking, changed everything, and released a new version without ANY of the features hundreds of people contributed over the years. now, years later they are at 30, maybe 35% of thr minimum features for a wm (and that thanks to hacks on top of the legacy pieces, because those devs were too busy changing the default theme and moving the window buttons left and right to better mimic apple choices du jour)