I'm using GNOME 3.10 here and I'm very satisfied. Actually, I don't like it's typography (not even close to Ubuntu's fonts, that I love for UIs), but it's still better then KDE's. Here (Core i3 Sandy Bridge, 4Gb Ram) it's pretty responsive, with nice animations, pretty colors, good icons (not all of them, but still...), and a interface that I like.
I don't relie on lots of work from distro-mantainers (Arch Linux here), and given that, it's one of the most consistent experience that I had with a vanilla DE. Everything is making more sense now than it did on GNOME 3.6. Every color, every animation, notifications, volume/brightness, menus...every piece of the DE is solid. And, despite the 46k bugs reported, I never experience major one here. The top-right menu is also a bright idea.
That said, I liked Unity very much too. Only god know how much the HUD helped me and made my work faster. And the tiny UI (in terms of space on screen) just stayed out of my way and let me work. I liked the blobal menu thing, even more when I started using the HUD. I would still be using it if it was a distro-independent UI. For me, it's sad that it's being developed by Canonical.
I like GNOME very much, and they are reaching convergence (tablet/PC) one day at time, and doing it very well (compared to Microsoft or even Ubuntu). But I have a feeling that Qt is the future (for it's features, portability, etc.).
I don't relie on lots of work from distro-mantainers (Arch Linux here), and given that, it's one of the most consistent experience that I had with a vanilla DE. Everything is making more sense now than it did on GNOME 3.6. Every color, every animation, notifications, volume/brightness, menus...every piece of the DE is solid. And, despite the 46k bugs reported, I never experience major one here. The top-right menu is also a bright idea.
That said, I liked Unity very much too. Only god know how much the HUD helped me and made my work faster. And the tiny UI (in terms of space on screen) just stayed out of my way and let me work. I liked the blobal menu thing, even more when I started using the HUD. I would still be using it if it was a distro-independent UI. For me, it's sad that it's being developed by Canonical.
I like GNOME very much, and they are reaching convergence (tablet/PC) one day at time, and doing it very well (compared to Microsoft or even Ubuntu). But I have a feeling that Qt is the future (for it's features, portability, etc.).
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