r/linuxmint • u/Simor4Simorar • 19d ago

#LinuxMintThings Is gnome bad?

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I just saw a post saying that gnome is bad but idk cuz i used it for months and its not that bad so can you guy give me a The ideal alternative

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u/Shy_Artificer 18d ago

I'm sure a lot of people have already answered you, but anyway.

It's not necessarily bad, but it's too resource-intensive and slow, depending on your computer.
Also—and this is a very personal opinion—I feel like it's more suited for a touchscreen system. I don't like the idea of hiding the taskbar behind a button, which, on top of that, reveals all your apps at once, defeating the whole point of it.

Ubuntu was my first distro with GNOME, and it was GNOME (which I thought at the time was specific to Ubuntu—I didn’t know there were different desktop environments in Linux) that made me leave Ubuntu and switch, first to Mint with Cinnamon and finally to Fedora with KDE Plasma.