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Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience
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How can people claim Gnome isn't trying to copy the Mac UI? If he didn't say mac at all during the video, I'd think this is some Chinese desktop environment being compared with Gnome.
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I asked that once and it is pretty different.
Some settings are different, the tiling works better but yeah it is too similar.
If anything to me gnome always seemed like some weird mix between macos, android, and chrome OS. That might be the material style theming though.
GNOME has had a top panel for over 20 years, it just used to have two panels.
Yeah I meant the dock launcher thing on the left
Left side panel was only ever Ubuntu only, no?
No, last Tails I used
Because it's very different? The bar defaulting to the top is the main similarity.
It's been a while since I've used Gnome, but back when I did I also felt it lacked a lot of configurability much like the Mac.
In comparison, KDE felt a lot more like Windows (or how Windows used to be in the past) where you could configure and tweak all sorts of things.
The entire video reveals how similar they are. Gnome is just Mac's UI and tools with a linuxy feel. Gnome devs even have the same ideology as Malus "We know best".
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Okay... I don't agree and I think it's very objectively obvious that there are huge differences in the UX and design philosophy.