GNOME 3.34 RC2 Available For Final Testing Of This Big Desktop Update

[tildearrow]

The Gnome UI has absolutely nothing to do with Mac,

Sadly, yes:
- The top bar
- The full-screen app launcher
- CSD
- The lack of customization options

[oleid]

Inversely, maybe power users are the ones who find GNOME hard to use?

Define power user. I'm using Linux since 1998 (starting with SuSE 5-something), when it took me three days to get my mouse working. GNOME works fine for me.

[tildearrow]

Define power user. I'm using Linux since 1998 (starting with SuSE 5-something), when it took me three days to get my mouse working. GNOME works fine for me.

Somebody who customizes their workflow to their own needs.

[Hibbelharry]

Inversely, maybe power users are the ones who find GNOME hard to use?

I do use Linux everyday to accomplish my work and earn money by doing it, i do work in a software company. It's hard to tell what kind of facts puts someone into the poweruser category, but I'm willig to put myself into that group. I like Gnome, because it's pretty easy to use.

[tildearrow]

I do use Linux everyday to accomplish my work and earn money by doing it, i do work in a software company. It's hard to tell what kind of facts puts someone into the poweruser category, but I'm willig to put myself into that group. I like Gnome, because it's pretty easy to use.

Removed that part of my post since it seems to be wrong.

[oleid]

Somebody who customizes their workflow to their own needs.

Doesn't everybody do that?

[tildearrow]

Doesn't everybody do that?

Most, but GNOME sort of limits the user's ability to customize the workflow.

[Britoid]

If the only way the Linux Desktop can get users from Windows is to copy the Windows UI and workflow we might as well give up.

[Britoid]

Sadly, yes:
- The top bar
- The full-screen app launcher
- CSD
- The lack of customization options

- Eh, the top bar achieves different things on macOS.
- The full screen app launcher is more of a Spotlight clone
- Whilst macOS has used them since the very beginning, Windows has supported them for a long time too.
- I don't think this is copied from macOS.

[oleid]

Most, but GNOME sort of limits the user's ability to customize the workflow.

Maybe, but as long as the requirements are met with the options which are there (settings, (self-made) extensions) and the desktop works stable, then everything is fine.

Some people might even argue, that GNOME is very customizable using it's extension system. I didn't dug too deep with the few extensions I wrote.