why did gnome become the official DE for Ubuntu
it fucking sucks
> it requires high end hardware just to run its shitty animations
> its completely counter-intuitive for new users
> its fucking resource expensive even winshit10 is a more reasonable choice
Why would anyone on earth go with it?
Gnome was a solid DE before 3.0.
Nowadays both Gnome and KDE are pieces of shit.
You can still use Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3.0 fine though.
Because before they created Unity, Ubuntu used GNOME, and even Unity is/was a GNOME fork. Canonical probably chose it as the default desktop because they already had experience with it.
I remember using ubuntu 8.04 back in the day and loving it. I use to think "yea this could actually replace windows one day" then gnome 3 and kde 4 came out and i realized the devs where actually mentally handicapped. Wasnt long after that systemd came out and then that was the final straw for me. If im going to use a shitty bloated os that spies on me i might as well use windows and have actual software to use.
GNOME before 3 was actually good.
KDE before 4 was actually good.
Amarok before 2.0 was actually good.
etc.
I haven't used Amarok in a year.
Back then it seemed pretty fine, only problem i had was with the UI being a little hard to adapt to, if that's what you're referring to.
>> it requires high end hardware just to run its shitty animations
maybe back in 2012
>> its completely counter-intuitive for new users
not if they come from android/macOS
>> its fucking resource expensive even winshit10 is a more reasonable choice
what. How about no. Win10 64 idles at 2.5GB, obongo gnome idles at 1.2.
It's still shit tho. I prefer Xfce or Budgie. You need to stop caring about normalfags btw
KDE 5 is pretty good, not sure what you're talking about.
KDE uses about as much memory as Xfce, especially with the compositor disabled. It's a great DE.
>maybe back in 2012
Still does.
nigga a fucken intel hd4000 will run the animations just fine.