The History Of GNOME

[@WolfiiDog13]

I love the Gnome workflow nowadays

[@tierdropp7544]

same

[@alfaiajanon]

Same... Didn't expect it, but It's wayyy more productive..

[@HikingFeral]

I love Gnome, especially on my Laptops. I am running KDE at the moment because I have the hardware to make it gorgeous while performing really well but you cannot beat gnomes workflow. You can throw the screen around and jump in and out of virtual desktops using 3 fingers on the trackpad. It really does have the best workflow I have ever seen.

[@rantzntirades1104]

Gnome is amazing to use with a touchscreen. Sure Linux doesn’t have good touchscreen support but it really doesn’t matter with gnome.

[@lenni-builder]

Yep, GNOME is great to use on touch screens, but what do you mean with Linux not having good touch screen support?

[@rantzntirades1104]

@lenni-builder Linux treats the touchscreen like a second mouse and not an actual touchscreen. It's very clunky to say the least but gnome is still a great environment with it regardless.

[@gardenstateboss]

I can't use Gnome it doesn't even have a basic feature of remembering windows position after closing. That alone is a deal breaker for me. I guess if you're using a laptop or touch device Gnome would be better. It is not good on large displays with more screen real-estate.

[@rantzntirades1104]

@@gardenstateboss honestly I use it on my 43 inch 4k TV. I see where you're coming from but that can be fixed by playing with the scaling settings. All of my displays are high DPI displays and gnome works beautifully with them. Honestly for me I like being able to tap the super key and seeing everything thats open. The workflow is just really smooth and seamless. My 2 favorite desktop environments is gnome and hyprland but the deal breaker for hyprland is that my main display is 144hz and its not straightforward capping it at 60 like in gnome. I have to cap it at 60hz because it will start randomly flickering if the refresh rate is higher.

[@supercellex4D]

@@rantzntirades1104 Not on Wayland.

[@ArturoEspinosaAldama]

Video should be titled "A history of GNOME's UX", because there is so much going on behind the scenes in terms of architecture between versions. No mention of CORBA, dBus, Bonobo and so on. That's why users don't understand why all these versions and "reinventing the wheel": they only judge by the UX.

[@byteseb]

Thanks for the feedback. I will keep it in mind for next videos!

[@NaokoMikuu]

I had no idea Gnome was made in Mexico

[@arber474]

I would love to see a series on how to build gnome apps.

[@guidodipilla3084]

Agreed...

[@ingen6351]

yes

[@proctoscopefilms]

Would love this. Seems like no one wants to port Rhythmbox to GTK4, so I'd love to learn how to do that.

[@arber474]

I think gtk4 with python would be so cool. There are just some old tutorials and none of them cover the basics, they assume you know everything upfront.

[@wonderfullife5665]

me too

[@fintomoon]

really great video, but I have one suggestion. please, don't zoom into pictures that much because when you talk about something like the top bar after it disappears from the screen it's just harder to understand what you are talking about. if you want to make your video more dynamic you can add a background and zoom out instead

[@Thiagola92]

2:51 "for example you can see the applications menu" no i can't D:

[@byteseb]

Noted!

[@tiktok.4527]

I love gnome 2 very much, and hate gnome 3 very much. But now since gnome 40 series then i start to use gnome again. Very interesting video. Thanks, bro...😊👍🙏

[@dstinnettmusic]

Gnome 4X is great, but nothing will look as beautiful to me as Ubuntu 10.10’s Gnome 2 with the dark version of the Humanity theme

[@leonardothomax]

Gnome and his variations are my favourite desktop !

[@d_sanu]

his = its

[@d_sanu]

I like xfce she is better!

[@wjckc79]

I started using Linux, in the form of Slackware, in 1997. My first Windows Manager was TWM. I believe I graduated to XFCE thereafter, but I may be mistaken. I had a keen interest in the development of Enlightenment and still fire it up for nostalgic reasons to this day. For that matter I still use eTerm. I remember when KDE was a baby as I used it extensively too. Right now, I am back to XFCE, albeit in a heavily modified form. I did use Gnome for awhile, but was no fan of the 3.0 update. I use it when I have to. I do still like it in the form of MATE. Past that, I really like the tiling window manager Awesome.

[@MyurrDurr]

I miss the vertical desktops....they were better than the current horizontal ones imo ... especially when using two display, the vertical strip of previews were placed side by side in the edges of the displays to easily move windows around with little mouse movement. Now they are at the top center of each display ;_;

[@techvishnuyt]

great video.. love to see your favorite DE is liked by much others

[@turbocuber]

damn your video editing quality has increased. good video as always

[@byteseb]

Thanks!

[@57thStIncident]

Maybe don’t animate-zoom the screenshot images such that the top bar area you’re describing slides out of view while you’re talking about it (otherwise, I like the content)

[@mdshahalam3]

Nostalgia make me remember the good old days my first distro was red hat

[@MegaManNeo]

GNOME3.x/4.x must be Windows 8's brother in law. At least the devs improved their touch input orientated pos to a point it is actually usable and expandable so even on a large desktop screen it's quite good. Personally however, I gave up on it and went back to KDE after being annoyed by earlier 4.x releases.

[@Jopekos]

Great video! 👏👏 awesome to know the history of this great Project.

[@byteseb]

Thank you!

[@makidoko]

I love Gnome, since V2. But there are lacking features (why no more tray ? Just why ? Who, in the team thought and convinced others that walking with one leg was more practical) that make me waiting for the better alternative, one day, because I know they think for instance that people don't need tray. Meanwhile, I use Gnome with extensions (I hate extensions, because they come and go, live and die, they are not part of the system). Cosmic DE is haunting my dreams this year, promising me natively everything I've got with Gnome and extensions (tray and advanced smart tiling, customizability). Are twenty years of love about to end ?

[@byteseb]

Even though I don't use the System Tray, you pretty much summarized my thoughts about GNOME too. I'm currently more excited for Cosmic. I've tried it and it is really promising.

[@miao_renfeng]

gnome 1 UI was superior in every way

[@tonystorcke]

The best just keeps getting better.

[@felosrg1266]

didn't know the creators of GNOME were from UNAM my alma mater ❤ , nice video !

[@dermond]

GOYA

[@deepajain8347]

Gnome 2 is still alive with MATE DE, it's unique and fast

[@esra_erimez]

This was very interesting and accurate. Thank you!

[@joaopauloalbq]

Gnome apps look good and polished, but the philosophy of less features and less settings I really don't like

[@numbertumbers529]

you know you made a bad take when the guy who hearts every single comment doesn't heart yours

[@joaopauloalbq]

@@numbertumbers529 look again :v

[@bragefuglseth3505]

That philosophy is what enables GNOME to be so polished, though. It really depends on whether you actually *need* all those options or not

[@gljames24]

It's definitely a trade-off. I enjoy the simplicity and design, but I still install extensions for dash to panel and clipboard.

[@joaopauloalbq]

@@gljames24 'simple' design with 'complex' features :B

[@xbeast7585]

Very Nice Bro Keep It Up

[@lenOwOo]

The video felt like just a placeholder for your talk. . Show more about what you talking about. . One of the example is. . You talk about taskbar on gnome 2 and what's on it yet what i see is only zoomed wallpaper Sure it would need more effort like actually installing those old distro and recording them, but the results would be better.

[@byteseb]

Yes. Thank you for the feedback. I will do that for the next video!

[@christopherhorn5274]

The design of GNOME 3 was not the problem. The problem was that they stopped supported GNOME 2 before GNOME 3 was stable. This is why Mate and Cinnamon were created.

[@derekr54]

Great video and very informative.

[@houseflygaming]

would like to see a video on KDE

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

been using gnome since the late 90s up till now with the struggle with gnome 3x days man that was a fine era of gnome and not in a good way lol , but yet till this day i still use gnome infact im watching this videos inside a gnome desktop.

[@urlocalgrasshair7899]

I'll watch it later since its 8am for me now

[@abubkurian1625]

great vdo.. looking forward to the app tutorial..

[@overrevvv]

Thank you for this video.

[@byteseb]

Thank you for watching it!

[@godnyx117]

Gnome is awesome, but it's heavy and bloated! One of my dreams is to build my own desktop environment that will be more beautiful, organized, fast and lightweight than GNOME!

[@calderov]

I've used Gnome since 1.x What a ride!

[@foshelan]

Ultramarine Linux uses which desk environment?

[@byteseb]

I think it uses Budgie, that takes some GNOME components

[@foshelan]

@@byteseb Thank you ^^

[@stabokbose]

Currently GNOME is the mature DE

[@arzentvm]

do one for kde

[@melsbacksfriend]

I'd like a video like that too.

[@SpyderGamer]

Really liked the video, good job!

[@gideonweiland3132]

awesome video dude

[@no-vo1em]

you have trule been gnome'd after this

[@myronkipa2530]

It's Linux and it just works

[@aronlinesl]

Hi! How I install gnome on mobile/android?

[@byteseb]

I think you have to install PostmarketOS on a supported device

[@LightMCXx]

and it still suck for most windows user since MS spoiled them

[@K.Parth_Singh]

your video is great but if you could please make the voice quality better.

[@byteseb]

Sure! But what would you want me to do exactly?

[@K.Parth_Singh]

@@byteseb Nice video, dude. But the voice quality sucks. Get a better mic or fix your audio settings. And use some noise cancellation software or app to filter out the background noise. feels like the voice is too punchy if that makes any sense.

[@epieursvelte13cirertrollferpur]

Good video

[@byteseb]

Glad you enjoyed

[@MeinDeutschkurs]

But isn‘t it pronounced „g nom“?

[@adfs5463]

good vid

[@Rac3r4Life]

IMO KDE Plasma is so much better than GNOME

[@gljames24]

I'm of the opposite opinion. Despite the fact that many people say KDE is better for customization. Gnome extensions are honestly so much more powerful and easy to use than the spaghetti of features on KDE. It's much easier to add to Gnome than it is to remove from KDE to get the UX I want.

[@Rac3r4Life]

@@gljames24 Nah. I used GNOME for years, and I always found extensions to be extremely buggy. Plasma has a lot of options, but it's not that hard to use. Every extension for GNOME just adds functionality that is already built into Plasma out of the box. Once you set it up all you need to do is back up your .config files to instantly return to the way you want on a reinstall.

[@Rac3r4Life]

Also, the single biggest problem with extensions is that they break on updates and it's endlessly frustrating. Why use GNOME with tons of third party extensions that introduce all sorts of issues just to get it functional for me when I can just use KDE and easily set it up any way I want with no extensions necessary?

[@aadityathapa]

@@Rac3r4Life is waiting for the extensions to be updated before updating your desktop environment that hard?

[@gurung1812]

@@gljames24 kde is not only customizeble it has alot of powerful tools built in

[@TheosTechTime]

Hi

[@byteseb]

Hi! Nice profile picture

[@cgwworldministries83]

Now only if the gnome devs would add desktop icons and a dock to said desktop and minimize and maximize buttons and notification buttons next to the clock we would have a complete desktop

[@bragefuglseth3505]

GNOME is already a complete desktop, even if the workflow doesn’t suit you personally

[@cgwworldministries83]

@@bragefuglseth3505 it’s not complete, it’s missing key features. Stop defending bad behavior.

[@bragefuglseth3505]

@@cgwworldministries83 All the «key features» you have mentioned are implemented differently into GNOME’s workflow. It’s not for everyone, but it’s perfectly usable

[@cgwworldministries83]

@@bragefuglseth3505 no it’s not. There’s no desktop icons without hacks. There’s no dock on the desktop without hacks. It’s unusable for the majority of people. It needs to change.

[@gljames24]

@@cgwworldministries83 I don't enjoy desktop applications, but I do like the minimize button and dash to panel. It's easy enough to install tweaks and extensions, and while you could argue that those features should just be in gnome settings, it would be extra features to further support.

[@deathdoor]

Bad camera man.

[@vaisakh_km]

😆 ya right.. bad camera man...

[@deathdoor]

@@vaisakh_km Yes, I'm serious. Noticed the parts where he was talking about specific interface elements but he kept the zoom going in, hiding the interface elements he was talking about? Bad "camera man", "filming" the wrong things.

[@tui3264]

Gnome 2 was perfection

[@vijaypanchalr3]

❤❤❤❤❤❤GNOME DE❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Gnome 3 is bad

[@hannescampidell]

please do not heart this comment

[@byteseb]

Ok!

[@hannescampidell]

@@byteseb thankyou

[@melsbacksfriend]

the g is silent btw.

[@softwarelivre2389]

It is not tho, GNOME is spelled with a hard G, just as in GNU Not Unix.

[@Rac3r4Life]

Wrong.

[@vaisakh_km]

G should be pronounced

[@rantzntirades1104]

It really doesn’t matter

[@vaisakh_km]

@@rantzntirades1104 it matters i don't want garden gnomes in my desk :}