<story><title>Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>int_19h</author><text>For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;, can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn&amp;#x27;t try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don&amp;#x27;t Know It).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lultimouomo</author><text>I agree with you SO MUCH.
I&amp;#x27;ve been using Gnome lately on my XPS13 because HiDPI support in Xfce is not quite there yet (while in honesty is pretty well supported in Gnome), and I hate it with a passion. It seems like they decided to reinvent every single well established UX paradigm there was, and somehow managed to make every one of them worse.
Random example: they managed to break Alt+Tab; you now need to think whether the other window you want was created by the same executable that created the one in the foreground right now or not. Plus if you use Ctrl+Shift+T in chromium you will never be able to Alt+Tab to it again.
Other random example: pushing the computer power button does not pop up a shutdown dialog because &amp;quot;shutting down is disruptive&amp;quot;!</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>int_19h</author><text>For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;, can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn&amp;#x27;t try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don&amp;#x27;t Know It).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m actually somewhat concerned that in the move to Wayland those of us who just want the window manager, and not a desktop environment will be forgotten. To me it seems silly to use a lot of processing power on a desktop environment that want be seen or used most of the time anyway.&lt;p&gt;Evilwm still seems like the window manager that got thing mostly right to me. It draws the windows and there&amp;#x27;s a keyboard short cut for opening an Xterm (and for moving and resizing the windows), you don&amp;#x27;t really need much more than that. Sadly it seem that the focus for the simplest window managers is tiling, which I also to like.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully a non-tiling, dead simple window manager for Wayland will appear in the future.</text></comment>