*Wacom tablets
Sorry to be that guy :(
Gnome has emitted its first major upgrade in six months with the release of Gnome 3.20. The biggest change, the group reckons, is in software upgrade handling: for the first time, Gnome users can run major operating system upgrades from the GUI, without having to drop down to the command line. While that's the sort of thing …
I like GNOME 3 in most respects but that Software app is by far and away the worst piece of trash I've ever dealt with. .
It's so high level that it's impossible to install something *specific* and aside from that it frequently appears to hang or displays meaningless rows of dots while the backend is off doing an update or similar. It's not up to standard of the rest of the desktop.
Agreed, just about all distros have very good package management software already, so this is just pointless. I like Gnome 3, but it has a glut of utterly pointless and poorly made applications bundled into it: Maps, Documents, Videos, Music, Weather, Photos, etc.
It still gets in my way, prevents me from doing what I want to do, doesn't work the way I want to work, requires more searching than doing, and requires far too many mouse clicks for things that once upon a time needed only a couple. If it was something I liked and wanted to use the show-stopper is that it doesn't work in a VM, and pretty all of my "desktop" machines except one are now virtualized. Cinnamon is more my cup of tea but suffers the same problems in a VM as Gnome 3, i.e. it NEEDS accelerated hardware to work properly, and forget using it over an RDP connection to a VM.
I often thank [insert your deity here] for MATE, and thank the devs with actual money for forking Gnome 2.
Wayland is also one of those things that hurts how I use Linux. Add systemd to the "improvements" and thoughts of migrating to BSD start to become more and more frequent.
Just about to install it now that 3.20 is out, give it another whirl.
I've done it the last couple of years (2.18,3.16). Just to see how it's coming along.
Gnome 3 is very beautiful, but I just keep finding the imposed workflow annoyingly incompatible with mine. The CSD applications look great in gnome, but are rather unsuited to using in a tiling wm due to CSD, keyboard shortcuts lacking and general application layout just being an anathema to tiling.
The end result of which is I always seem to revert to tilers (i3, herbstluftwm, Xmonad) and the kde applications though.
I have less issues with Unity than Gnome 3, but it's worth a try for a month a year...
There is no way I can use a POS like Gnome for daily use. The designers have decided that their way is the ONLY way. And they continue to build complex programs with little testing.(I have found bugs, reported them and nothing happened.) so the new gnome is just more
CREATURE FEEP
I understand the love/hate sentiment for Gnome3.
But I dont understand how it "gets in the way".
Can someone accurately define this for me without ranting or mentioning MATE/XFCE?
I use Gnome3 (everyday I might add) and I use it specifically because it *doesn't* get in the way as far as I am concerned.
Full disclosure:
I use Antergos. The only thing I ever need to add to Antergos is the infinality font rendering packages. Thats mainly because the default font rendering package for Arch Linux is crap.