- <i>"Smoother pointer movement: performance improvements mean that the pointer will move smoothly even when the computer is busy."</i><p>That's a very short description of what sounds like maybe a very interesting optimization? There've been giant HN threads arguing about why mouse pointers are not smooth.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032</a> (<i>"24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse"</i>, 253 comments)
Gnome's polish is probably the best of the Linux DE's but it removes far too much configurability and features (in the name of simplification) for my tastes. I'll stick with KDE. Each release gets more and more polished, and I'm very much looking forward to Plasma 6 and the Wayland Goodness it will bring.<p>Having said that, I think the competition between them makes both of them better so I'm glad that both exist. And where they depend on common libraries, both benefit once again from the contributions from the other's contributions.
Looks really good, will be updating soon. It's crazy there's a free, open source desktop that showcases the latest tech ... and yet we choose to constrain ourselves to MacOS and Windows by default.
I’m looking forward to upgrading to Fedora 39 soon, but am _really_ wary of GNOME 45, for two reasons:<p>- The GNOME team has been progressively decimating themeing (no, I don’t like the libadwaita default look, never have, never will).
- Every time there is a GNOME upgrade half my extensions break because they decided to change some baseline assumption in the APIs.<p>That said, it is the nicest DE for me UX-wise, since it requires only a couple of tweaks to satisfy my Mac-centric reflexes. But the first few weeks of a new release are always a pain because of subtle breakage that should never gone past the beta stage, and I don’t see a lot of ongoing feedback to the desktop experience being acted upon.
I don't need a map w/navigation features on my desktop.<p>I need working fractional scaling for xwayland apps, working system tray and configurable keyboard shortcuts. Gnome can't offer me that.