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To add to the difficulty conversation, I don't find Gnome 3 to be difficult in the hard to figure out to use meaning, I find it to be difficult in regards to its ease-of-use. Its default, OOTB experience without plugins just isn't very fun for me to use and just seems to get in my way. By the time I add on enough plugins to make it a fun experience I find myself in the territory of plugin conflicts with issues arising from that and why I'd pick a minimalist WM over Gnome -- I figure if I'm going to have to add a significant amount of non-theme*, non-native project stuff to tailor the desktop to my liking, might as well start with a minimalist WM and use programs over a DE and scripts.
It also feels like it's trying to be a tiling WM with just enough floating window manager bits to not scare people who don't care for tiling off. I'm just talking about the full screen programs, full screen program changing hot corner**, expecting and wanting people to use keyboard controls over clickity click click. If someone doesn't want that kind of an environment, they very well might call Gnome difficult simply due to it fighting that person with how they'd like to work. Like, I find it to be a pain in the ass to go back and forth between KB & M when using multiple Gimp instances -- I'm just saying that I prefer one click on a taskbar vs 6 alt+tabs or a hot corner when I'm doing mouse heavy stuff.
I suppose it just depends on what a person is doing most of the time. If they're mainly typing in an editor and can cram everything they need onto one screen with minimal need for a mouse, Gnome would probably work great for them. If they're mainly multitasking with mouse heavy programs, Gnome probably wouldn't be the best for them.
This isn't intended to be a negative post about Gnome. I'm a use what makes you happy person. I know very well that people find can find Plasma*** to be just as difficult in the get out of my way meaning and not suited for their preferred workflow. It's just hard to add to a topic like that without saying why.
You know, a lot of that describes Windows 8 to 10 too
*I honestly don't expect Gnome or KDE or Ubuntu or Fedora or whatever to carry all the themes
**Plasma does that by default too....
***or whatever DE, I just happen to be a Plasma user so that's what I went with
It also feels like it's trying to be a tiling WM with just enough floating window manager bits to not scare people who don't care for tiling off. I'm just talking about the full screen programs, full screen program changing hot corner**, expecting and wanting people to use keyboard controls over clickity click click. If someone doesn't want that kind of an environment, they very well might call Gnome difficult simply due to it fighting that person with how they'd like to work. Like, I find it to be a pain in the ass to go back and forth between KB & M when using multiple Gimp instances -- I'm just saying that I prefer one click on a taskbar vs 6 alt+tabs or a hot corner when I'm doing mouse heavy stuff.
I suppose it just depends on what a person is doing most of the time. If they're mainly typing in an editor and can cram everything they need onto one screen with minimal need for a mouse, Gnome would probably work great for them. If they're mainly multitasking with mouse heavy programs, Gnome probably wouldn't be the best for them.
This isn't intended to be a negative post about Gnome. I'm a use what makes you happy person. I know very well that people find can find Plasma*** to be just as difficult in the get out of my way meaning and not suited for their preferred workflow. It's just hard to add to a topic like that without saying why.
You know, a lot of that describes Windows 8 to 10 too
*I honestly don't expect Gnome or KDE or Ubuntu or Fedora or whatever to carry all the themes
**Plasma does that by default too....
***or whatever DE, I just happen to be a Plasma user so that's what I went with
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