GNOME

“It's been 7 years and counting since Gnome removed the ability to set the desktop background to a solid color using the GUI.”

“The fact it can't really be customized is a huge time saver, as I won't waste time making the colors just right.”

“Gnome might have some bugs and shortcomings but now millions desktops are using Gnome based window manager for decade and the world didn't collapse yet.”

“Neither GNOME nor KDE are perfect. But they are both usable, and have divergent design that gives users a meaningful choice”

“The dock is basically awful, because you can't read application or window titles, windows auto-stack and require extra hover and clicks”

“Gnome 3 is one of the best things to happen to Linux on Desktop, and a salient example of actually modernizing the desktop.”

“In GNOME, you have a dock for your most used applications, which can be launched or navigated to with Super+1/2/3”

“On Gnome, super let's you search for application launchers or click on windows immediately; works great for both.”

“My favorite part of GNOME is how the Windows 8 start screen wannabe truncates the names of apps, and provides absolutely no way to see their full name.”

“GNOME is by and far imo the best DE on Linux when it comes to consistency and being the most accessible to non-technical users.”

“any time you'd constructively criticize it on places like their Issue tracker or r/gnome, their defenders would come with pitchforks at you”

“it was still a huge improvement to remove all the "unbreak me" obvious preferences that only had one sensible answer”

“It boggles my mind how modern gnome doesn't come with a traditional desktop that you have to install an extension to enable.”

“I do like Gnome, it's just enough window manager for me, I like the defaults and I like the touchpad gestures etc.”

“I like (Vanilla) Gnome + PaperWM. But seriously why would they disabled the middle mouse copy paste buffer by default?”

“I basically ran screaming back to Gnome/X11 (with a couple of extensions to give me the old desktop experience from 22.04)”

“installing the GNOME extensions that I need to make my desktop look like 99% of what I would it to look and behave”

“I don't like Gnome's high and mighty attitude either, especially because it chases people away from making bug reports or contributing.”

“I dislike Gnome a lot but at least their preinstalled software is minimal, elegant and actively supported/developed.”

“I can totally say that KDE AND Gnome AND Cinnamon AND Sway AND even the immature Niri are all better experiences than macOS.”

“GNOME is easy. Press the super key, type the first 1 to 4 characters of your application's name, press enter.”

“Both desktop environments allow to filter notifications to the point that you can decide what type of notifications are allowed to appear.”

“It is always GNOME people breaking the ecosystem by not supporting what every other desktop support and what users actually WANT.”

“I actually think GNOME works best with the keyboard, they put a lot of effort into ensuring you can do everything without a mouse”

“it was mainly the fact that I couldn't patch in my need for customization with extensions well enough anymore that made me realize GNOME wasn't my thing”

“I dislike Gnome on a pure desktop or non-touch laptop, in part because of UI decisions I think are meant to work better on a touchscreen”

“one developer (with no training or experience in design) saying “I don’t personally consider this feature to be important, and so it’s gone.””

“Gnome has many many faults but it's probably the closest DE you're going to get to what Windows and MacOS have.”

“I like GNOME for the most part. But I really dislike needing an extension to change the date away from US format.”

“In reality such features are often dropped, no settings in gnome-settings, and non default features are not tested in new builds.”

“Remove Gnome ASAP because after they remove your ability to control anything on your computer you won't be able to remove it anymore.”

“The new UI stuff happening in Gnome-land, while controversial, has started to make the desktop feel modern and cohesive.”

“gnome has a vision of how the desktop should look like and strong behavior of "my way or the highway", but maybe you get surprised how well it works”

“If nobody is assigned to GNOME bugs it's because developers were more interested in redesigning some app or rewriting some APIs than fixing bugs.”

“It's a great desktop if you don't need to print anything or use an extension for more than a year or so before API changes break the extension.”

“I switched to Gnome many years ago and even the newest windows and macos desktop feel old and non user-friendly in comparison.”

“In Gnome, the top bar stays in the Primary monitor only, and worse, even the app switcher always displays on Primary monitor”

“Gnome is very keyboard centric. If you actually take the time to learn it without relying on your mouse for everything it's actually extremely efficient.”

“It has all the things most people need: access to wifi/bluetooth/launcher/a file manager, apps for nearly everything, etc.”

“Bringing people in like that was not a wrong decision, many people first experience of non windows was gnome, many of those stuck around.”