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Fresh Wayland Experiences With Weston, GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment
jones_supa writes: Software developer Pavlo Rudyi has written a blog post about his experiences with the various desktop environments currently supporting Wayland. The results are not a big surprise, but nevertheless it is great to see the continued interest in Wayland and the ongoing work by many different parties in ensuring that Wayland will eventually be able to dominate the Linux desktop. To summarize, Pavlo found Weston to be "good," GNOME is "perfect," KDE is "bad," and Enlightenment is "good." He also created a video from his testing. Have you done any testing? What's your experience?
The first iterations of GNOME 3 was perhaps a bit rough but that's understandable when you're fixing so much at once. Around GNOME 3.8 things got better and since 3.14 it has been really good. If you haven't tried GNOME in a while then now is a good time to look at it with fresh eyes.
Slashdot is pathetic.
RHEL/CentOS 7 used to have GNOME 3.8 and I agree that was far from perfect. Red Hat recently updated it to GNOME 3.14 in the RHEL/CentOS 7.2 update, so that should have fixed most of the issues. Sure if GNOME just isn't for you then that's a matter of taste, it's not something wrong with GNOME by itself.
By the way, try sudo yum groupinstall 'KDE Desktop' if that's what you want.
But the thing is, Gnome was for me, but then they needlessly took it in an awful direction. If something goes in a different direction, what it tells you is that you're no longer part of their target market and should probably seek a different solution because they no longer want you as a user. I personally jumped ship to XFCE during the awkward window where there really wasn't a good Gnome 2 fork/clone, and haven't looked back.
Same. Happily running XFCE w/ Compton on Debian here.
It's simple, stays out of my way and doesn't crash every few days.
Which is pretty much all the "User Experience" I want from a desktop environment.