I was lucky, never had problems with extensions but I use very few. I think they are very simple and allow to customize gnome.
Plasma customization are plenty but there are also a lot of bugs in those. Just changing themes global or icons (anything else than breeze) gave me some odd behavior last Fall when I used KDE in my work computer, and it’s not the first time I note bugs on DE behavior.
Don’t get me wrong, I personally love plasma too (I just like trolling mildly plasma users especially @ricklinux who secretly loves gnome ), I also like using gnome, but my favorite are tiling wm. But plasma has more bugs and too many options I dont really need. Like does anyone use the activities. Also discover has been buggy forever, and the renderer and multi screen handling not yet up to par with gnome. To spill the beans
At the end of the day it only matters what the user likes personally. It’s all Linux. I am grateful to have both of the DE choices and I can switch to whatever I like when I like it I think I am going to switch to doom emacs, then it doesn’t matter anymore.
My impression about Gnome is that was made for mobile/touch screen devices, a mix between android and iOS and most users should use extensions to customize, not only its look, but the workflow too. It could be hard to get a good experience, specially comming from Windows (a year ago). Now I think I’m ready to keep testing and trying to customize to see if it’s a good DE for me or not.
Yes, indeed, but customization is almost always a “one time task”, so it’s not big deal at all. Unfortunately, there are other bugs, I know some and I suspect that there are a lot to discover, but I’m not afraid of them, specially because this great EOS community exists.
There are some apps that I want to try, like Kdenlive, Kate and other QT based apps and that’s why I’m testing Plasma too.
The first thing I’ve learned when comming to EOS was to keep away from any GUI installer.
Can I test this on VirtualBox? I’ll try it tomorrow.
Yes that’s true. Forgot, I also worked on KDE neon last summer, sometimes trying also debian and ubuntu based distros. But definitely preference for arch and EOS.
I definitely think that gnome works well and is effective on smaller laptop screen 14 inch. On desktop and larger laptop screen I can definitely understand why people like KDE.
Whatever works for you - DE or just a WM whatever works for you is what’s most important, for some it is memory usage for others it is the ability to customise for others they just want something simple they can use to open the internet or a video. So pretty much whatever works for you is best & if GNOME is getting your attention they are doing something right. I personally use KDE for ease of use plus how easy it is to customise.
With modern hardware i don’t understand the memory use argument. Who cares if it uses more than another desktop. I have powerful cpu and plenty of memory. Unless you’re running old hardware that is lower power, memory usage is a non issue.
Regarding Gnome, some one summarized my feelings precisely:
Gnome version 1.0 was interesting for its time, but since the early 2000’s, I never understood a reason to use it. The current incarnation does nothing to convince me otherwise.
My laptop is old, i5 fifth gen - 8gb RAM, but I don’t care too much about memory usage on start, while it keeps below 1gb. I was surprised because a year ago, Gnome was the one that used more memory than other DE’s.
Didn’t see the video, but that preview it looks like budgie.
), I also like using gnome, but my favorite are tiling wm. But plasma has more bugs and too many options I dont really need. Like does anyone use the 
