Why I do not use Gnome anymore
Posted: 2017-03-18 14:50
I don't know the solutions to the many problems associated with Gnome 3 and up, when ever I see posts on these problems , I want to just say,
"Try using another DE" , but to many that would not be a solution,...anyway it
is for me.
Actually, not another DE, but I have found using a Window Manager instead
the best solution.
So any way, I started wondering, if it was just me , or if others had similar feelings about Gnome, from what I see here on the forum, a lot of people seem to still try to use it, but there seem to be a lot of problems.
I am kind of lazy, and when one "program" becomes extremely problematic, well , I don't know of a better term or the best term, I just consider it "broken" or mal ware, there might be a better term, ? Any way, I take the easy route, get rid of the "broken program", and start using something that works better,
This was the case with gnome, for me.
It is not just Debian either, using OpenBsd, I ran into the same problems with Gnome,..I found that XFCE and OpenBox WM , are a better solution.
So any way, to see what others have experienced, I used this search string:
Why I do not use Gnome any more
This was one link , these results lead to:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torv ... n-failure/
and ,
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torv ... nome-fork/
Apparently I am not the only one that is not impressed with the changes that
Gnome has made,..years ago it was pretty good, in fact when I first started using
a Linux system , it was what I used, but not any more.
"Try using another DE" , but to many that would not be a solution,...anyway it
is for me.
Actually, not another DE, but I have found using a Window Manager instead
the best solution.
So any way, I started wondering, if it was just me , or if others had similar feelings about Gnome, from what I see here on the forum, a lot of people seem to still try to use it, but there seem to be a lot of problems.
I am kind of lazy, and when one "program" becomes extremely problematic, well , I don't know of a better term or the best term, I just consider it "broken" or mal ware, there might be a better term, ? Any way, I take the easy route, get rid of the "broken program", and start using something that works better,
This was the case with gnome, for me.
It is not just Debian either, using OpenBsd, I ran into the same problems with Gnome,..I found that XFCE and OpenBox WM , are a better solution.
So any way, to see what others have experienced, I used this search string:
Why I do not use Gnome any more
This was one link , these results lead to:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torv ... n-failure/
and ,
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torv ... nome-fork/
Apparently I am not the only one that is not impressed with the changes that
Gnome has made,..years ago it was pretty good, in fact when I first started using
a Linux system , it was what I used, but not any more.