Reply 22900 of 27577, by Kahenraz
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xcomcmdr wrote on 2022-10-17, 19:15:I use Gnome 4 on the latest Fedora, and it's really superior to anything from the past. The best user experience by far !
I was a Xfce fanboy. Not anymore.
Gnome 2 is the classic desktop metaphor. Since Gnome 3, focus has been on looks and design, to the detriment of usability. The problem wasn't the desire for change, but the destruction of what was, in my opinion, the peak of the professional Linux desktop experience. Even Linus Torvalds agreed:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds- … design-failure/
I broke down, and upgraded my old aging Fedora install on my desktop. Simply because my old F14 comes with ancient X versions that don't contain all the fixes to make Intel 3D really work well. And yes, things really do work better on the graphical side.
But with F17 comes gnome3. And I knew I'd have trouble, but also knew that most of the worst crap could be fixed with extensions, and I'd used 3.4 on my laptop enough to know it should be all somewhat usable.
Notice that he said F17 (Fedora 17). It was the end of an era.
If you've never tried Fedora 14 with its Gnome 2 desktop, I would highly recommend the experience, even if you won't run it once. It's far more polished than anything I've seen in the last 10 years.
I tried to make a Gnome 3 theme to try and bring some of the design aesthetic back, but there are features missing from Gnome 3 that make it impossible. See here for my GitHub release, although it doesn't work right with the most recent releases of Gnome 3, you can get an idea of how it used to look from the screenshots.