I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.
I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.
Elementary OS - I can not customize anything, I can not even minimize windows! Something with GNOME - I ALLREADY seen it! No way!
I use GNOME now lol, love it.
They must have swapped roles at some point, Elementary lets you minimize windows the last time I checked (use toolbar or gesture), and GNOME doesn’t 😂
I honestly don’t mind lack of visual customization as long as the design language makes sense, is clear, is consistent, and applies to all the system apps and default utilities. In the case of Elementary and GNOME this is OK IMO because they are ridiculously consistent, and share some similarities
You can’t minimize windows in eOS?
WTF?
By default GNOME has only close button. You can add minimize and maximize with tweak tool, which could be pre installed or not.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It all makes sense now.
Just another one of gnome’s ridiculous design decisions, lol.
Part of me thinks they’re being paid by Apple and Microsoft just to keep the Linux desktop shit.
I always setup minimize and close, maximize is double-click anyway. If there is only single close button I sometimes just press it for no purposes to realize fuck I closed the window again!
Gnome is amazing, without it I probably wouldn’t bother with Linux. Honestly nothing comes close UX-wise for me. I don’t want yet another Windows clone.
Minimising is a misuse of the gnome workflow, ideally you’d move a window to another desktop. Better than hiding it in some dock IMO.
Maximising I literally never used the button for anyway. I double clicked the title bar, dragged the program to the top, or pressed Super+Up. Aiming for a relatively small button just feels worse than all of those. It’s literally a pointless button and I feel like the only reason anybody has it it just because they’re used to seeing it/having a Windows UX.
It’s fine that you want your UX to work like Microsoft’s, but that doesn’t mean others are bad.