3. How to speed up Gnome

How to speed up Gnome

And quite a few, myself included, do not. Some of us don't basically because we're not you and don't like being expected to be you by software or its devs.

I'll admit the character of the hate in gnome-hate threads is often more fanboi than meaningful, so maybe superwinner is partially right. Myself, I've only played with Unity for maybe 1 minute in my whole life and don't have positive thoughts about it. Rather than argue about Gnome/Unity things/how to tweak/whatever, I'll use Windows 8 as a strawman (cause we all hate Windows, right?).

For me, when Gnome 3 came out I hated it for similar reasons I hate Win8. It was foreign, and seemed optimized for a computer use model that was not mine and it felt like it told me I am at fault and insulted me every time I used it. Eventually I got a convertible laptop hoping I'd get it and I still hate Win8.1 because I only want to use a touchscreen when I'm in media consuming mode (laying on my back with the tablet on my chest) and not when I'm trying to do something that uses a keyboard. Even then, it didn't feel "better" than Win7. Why learn a new way to do what you already can do unless the new gives you something in return? It took a while to get motivated, because setting up a computer is a time consuming thing for me, but eventually it was gone.

Fortunately, with Gnome 3's initial release, it's Linux, so I had choice and used XFCE that I had always used on low spec machines and eventually Cinnamon when it came around. I had heard Gnome had improved a lot from friends who like it so I gave it a shot when I went to CentOS7 on one of my boxes. It seems way more intuitive than it used to be and it seems easier now to disable the things that I'm never going to use, so I'm still using it. Even though the insults are easier to tolerate, it's gone the second I run into an issue that will take me longer to fix (to the way I want) than it will take me to replace Gnome.

tl;dr: If your software and devs insult me by telling me they know what I want better than I do, it had better be right, or Apple.

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