Why do we still put up with GNOME?

I've spent the last 10 years off and on from Linux. Had I used something other than GNOME, I believe my experience would have been better.

I've been on KDE for the last 3-4 years and things work so well I could never imagine going back to GNOME.

It is a preference - and not everyones. I always hated middle click paste, middle click is amongst the first thing I remap on my systems to do the macOS "exposé"-style of window rearrangements. Other people will have other preferences.

I just use KDE on arch, though for a little while it was glitching out on me frequently, idk if I've been too busy to notice it recently or if they finally patched it up.

I miss KDE 3.5 it felt drastically more stable than KDE today.

I've tried other DE's but they get weird if your Distro is not built for them.

Probably changed to work the same as macos. Not sure if windows does middle click paste.

Did they publish some rationale somewhere? It’s a useful feature.

THANX! I don't know how people live on platforms that don't have this :)

As for the negative Gnome feedback (not from you but others) I do like Gnome, it's just enough window manager for me, I like the defaults and I like the touchpad gestures etc. Generally looks and works well for all I do. I always feel swamped by KDE.

Jesus, do the people who work on GNOME even like Linux?