alt Hacker NewsI tried out Ubuntu with Gnome a few years ago after a lot of experience with KDE on Gentoo. I guess I don't get it.
No task bar. Had to Google for the command to install one. It's worthless. Icons change order. I have 5 instances of the same program open, and I can't tell which is which because they change order in the task bar. Can't even enumerate them since their order changes while I'm switching through them! This is the most basic function of a window manager and it doesn't work.
Oh, am I supposed to use that full screen task switcher thing? No, all my windows contain text, and I can't tell their thumbnails apart.
Yet, so many people prefer it. What the hell am I missing?
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Ubuntu runs a heavily modified GNOME, and your issue is entirely in their taskbar extension. Vanilla GNOME on Fedora works fine for me.
I feel the opposite - so many people prefer KDE, what the hell am I missing?
KDE used to look ugly comparing to Gnome. Now it's fine but still worse.
KDE offers plenty of shiny things that I don't like and need - graphical effects, application menu, widgets.
Most of the time I have a terminal and browser full screen and all I need is cmd key that triggers search and allows me to enter the name of the application I want to run and hit enter. Gnome is much cleaner, simpler and logical to use.