Re: Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activists

[Samuel Banya]

Gnome is probably the worst DE I have ever used in my entire life. Not only is 
it just bloated, but it just wants to be MacOSX so badly, and I don't even like 
MacOSX that much and prefer Linux.

I would stay away honestly.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021, at 8:08 PM, Po Lu wrote:
> "Jorge P. de Morais Neto" <jorge+list@disroot.org 
> <mailto:jorge%2Blist@disroot.org>> writes:
> 
> > I have now reconsidered---I want a hackable keyboard-driven WM or DE.
> > I'll keep GNOME installed as plan B for difficulties with the hacker WM.
> > Also, once in a while I will use GNOME just to preserve useful knowledge
> > for assisting unskilled users.
> 
> Is there any particular reason GNOME doesn't suit your needs?  GNOME is
> hackable, through shell extensions and also Mutter plugins, is part of
> the GNU project, and is in my experience more solid than most of the
> alternatives you mentioned in your poll.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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