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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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All the negative comments here have nothing of substance to say. It’s like Baader-Meinhof for pessimistic pricks.
I’m interested in seeing some impressions that aren’t “I keep hearing about it so it’s bad”
My take: I heard about it about 2 years ago, either on here or reddit. A user recommended it, so I tried it out.
It's good, has a clean aesthetic and a simple switcher to alter how GNOME actually looks. Perfect for a new User to tryout the Windows Menu look, or more of a GNOME dash, or whatever the other two options were.
Seemed solid and user friendly. Everything worked out of the box.
And they figured out funding: present a price, allow downloader to choose the price , or offer more, or type in 0.
Mainly I'm still waiting for their admin Grid product to manage multiple machines from a central location.
How bad can it be? It's just GNOME with a few extensions to make it look like windows.
They customized Gnome, apparently Gnome is very customizable on the back end that most people don't get into.
GNOME's always been customizable with gsettings and extensions, the problem is that the options aren't exposed in the user settings and in the case of the extensions they are only available through third party software. The upside to this is that the desktop environment is leaner which allows faster development and generally less bugs.