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  • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Most users come from a Windows background, so they’re used to the “simplicity” of its start menu. For unknown reasons, many still favor the limited Windows-like experience over the native GNOME shell…

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      5 hours ago

      Most users come from a Windows background, so they’re used to the “simplicity” of its start menu.

      I think it’s that it’s jarring to go from “let me add a new thing to what I am doing” to “I need something new. EVERYTHING GO AWAY SO I CAN LOOK AT WHAT I WANT”

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      I agree. There is basically nothing to learn on GNOME that would take more than 5 minutes to explain. Windows sucks and included in that is the UI. I really don’t understand clinging to that UI so hard. If I didn’t know Stockholm syndrome wasn’t real, I’d call it akin to that …

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      Because Gnome Shell is terrible! Or, people just want to use their computer and not have to learn a whole new way to do it. Most desktops understand this.