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    [–] poinck@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I think the default setting matters, if there is any. Looking at Gentoo.

    Fun aside, I think Fedora might be a good choice, because Gnome is easy and polished!

    [–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

    Fedora also comes with a dozen different DEs prepackaged and installable with a single, simple command. Each user just can select and change their own desktop with a menu selection on the login screen

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My problem with Gnome is if it were my desktop, I might as well run Windows, since Gnome shell/mutter is slightly less capable than Windows. Extensions exist, but are very much a second class citizen and get broken by shell versions frequently, and the author of an extension may be gone when it comes time to rework it for a new version.

    Plasma/kwin have pretty much everything I want in desktop/window management baked in.

    [–] Aasikki@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 months ago

    I love gnome overall and it's my favorite de, but the missing features and extensions being almost mandatory for basic functions definitely are a pain.

    Extensions are cool but the basics should be built in.

    [–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    Fedora has ten other desktops to choose from. I'm currently test driving Budgie

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

    I do fedora with KDE/plasma.

    Nowadays fedora is a decent "boring" distribution, that finally settled into blatantly prompting to add the non free repositories you will probably want.

    Ubuntu was annoying with it's little adventures in "not invented here" with mir, unity, and nowadays snap. So nice to have a modern, boring distribution.