 It has already been two months since I first started to use GNOME and I wanted to do a new video saying what I liked and what I disliked after two months. I already did one video after like a week and I got a lot of useful feedback and I received like 50 messages saying you need to install this extension that I now do have and that was indeed correct that improved the situation by a lot. So first of all what do I actually like about GNOME and a lot actually it fits as I said in the last video my idea of how I should use a desktop it just works it has touchpad gestures it has touch screen gestures and a lot of well everything I need from a shell is built-in now that I mean built-in considering extensions now that I do have them and I can switch between all of the audio inputs there are a couple of things that bugs me and the first one is actually a bug and it's not a bug in GNOME but rather in an extension which is the blur mesh extension which is super beautiful I want to emphasize this however a lot of times this title while here this status bar whatever you call it very often doesn't get actually blurred until I go inside of the overview and then come back. This is probably a known bug but nonetheless it's the only bug that really annoyed me so if that's the issue then you know the situation is pretty good. Another thing that but this is due to the design of actually GNOME anoid me is connecting to Wi-Fi now let's say that I just turned off the Wi-Fi router and then I see it's not connected I select network and then it automatically automatically connects to the network and the connect button is still off and I need to go to cancel all of this interaction feels weird overall it's much better in my opinion in plasma where you have the volume outlet and you don't actually have to go inside of a dialogue that closes everything else deems the whole screen and that you need to click cancel after actually the computer automatically connects to the internet and generally speaking interacting with connecting to the Wi-Fi is a bit weird connecting to the bluetooth 2 because in order to connect to a new device I need to go into bluetooth settings which is weird I mean select network okay intuitive bluetooth settings why don't you have connect to bluetooth and in here even now it's turned off but if I wanted to connect to this there is this connection button which I want to emphasize this shouldn't in my opinion of course be this component it should be a button because what this does is try to connect and it immediately disappears which is not how this component should behave it's supposed to stay on and usually if it's not like in range it comes back and it's still off this is the weirdest thing ever I think it would be much better to have just a button that says connect and you click on it and then it says trying to connect and then if it fails it says you know feed connect again I don't know but not this in my opinion these are the only two things that I got annoyed by GNOME everything else is good from the shell and I mean I really want to emphasize this before before switching to the next section the shell is really good like I really like the design and after I've been made aware of some useful tricks like you can actually drag this window inside the desktops to create a new one that was pretty useful I didn't know I didn't know about it now that I do it's pretty useful and in general actually managing work spaces with an extension is perfect I really like the shell what I don't like personally again is the default apps so I was used to Dolphin and Kate for the true most common apps I use of course viewing files and doing code Dolphin I think in my opinion beats Nautilus it's called right Nautilus I think it's called it's it has a bit more feature like as an example let's say that I'm inside of documents and now I want to do a new text file and then I right click and there's nothing why don't I have a new file and then I go see here like where is it there's three different new icons but this one is surely not a file this one is a window this one is a folder so as far as I know unless my setup is broken there's no way to create a new file from inside the file manager which I can understand as a design decision I personally just don't think it fits me so I would prefer to actually be able to create new files from a context menu and this is just an example in general Dolphin is more flexible if you want another example yeah it's cool to have tabs but it's also very cool to have split view and split view is just a very very nice feature of Dolphin so I think that Dolphin kind of beats but it's not like it was very troublesome for me I can just use this it's no big deal and just lightly annoyed by some decisions yeah then there's this so this is j edit as far as I know of course it's actually j edit in the name as well this one is called just documents so j edit I try to use it to do some light editing for my code I have some very small files like I don't know here let's take sketches editor as an example this is not to be like this isn't too big for my code senders 300 of lines of an HTML page and I just can't use j edit like I don't really like so I don't understand why the default is eight instead of four who uses eight but for this is so weird to me like even for a normal like light text editing if four feels normal it doesn't I don't understand it for here like this and it's tab by default which I understand but all of my files are using spaces and if I switch to spaces it's not actually remembered throughout the session so I have to do this every time I open j edit which is a bit annoying and in general I never realize just how fully fledged Kate is like Kate has a lot of stuff I'll make you simple example okay not so simple example but I'm very annoyed by this the j edit by default out of the box doesn't have zoom like I don't just don't understand this like is zooming your text not a common use case I thought everybody did it I don't understand why do I have to install a plugin talk to actually zoom in is the plugin installed by default every everywhere else except on my computer I don't understand it so I installed the plugin to actually zoom in weird and what else so Kate has a lot of features that are extremely nice when you're doing editing as an example let's say that this line should actually be underneath top so how I would do it here is take this cut here paste okay in Kate you can actually do control shift up or control shift down and it moves lines and if you select a block you can do that and it moves the entire block super useful I wish that every text editor had that I cannot blame j edit for not having this but I just felt like really felt the lack of this thing another thing which is even more niche in Kate you can go control shift B and it goes inside block editing mode where you can edit like five lines at the same time which is super cool and super helpful and it often happens to me that I'm doing stuff in j edit and then I realize I have to edit like 10 lines at the same time and I just close j edit open up Kate enter a block mode do this up there and then close Kate go back to j edit because it's actually quicker to open up Kate again it's not something I can blame j edit for not having but it's something that I do praise Kate for having out of the box even though it's a very simple to be honest text editor like really out of the box yeah I don't know what else to say in general I didn't feel like I could actually do text editing through j edit which is a bit sad it's the only norm up that really I couldn't I couldn't use for its intended use case and for its intended use case I do mean it because it's not like I do j edit to do super complex stuff I don't I do simple scripts if I have to do editing I can use an IDE but for simple scripts this should work and I feel like Kate just is whole another level so apps wise these two didn't convince me and sadly these are the most common apps that you use another one let me quickly talk about this one which I use to take notes in class and this is fine okay let me say a couple of things as a necessary premise okay let's go you can see my calculus three notes so this as far as I know is a third-party app so it's not like again I'm blaming any developer about this not at all and also I've used it for months at this point and it's a good app and I think it's one of the most simplest apps out there and I just loved this create new template which is super easy and I wish Kile which is the latex editor from KDE at this however however sometimes I just don't understand just like the text zoom inside of here there are some things that I just don't understand here now in here I can zoom in probably because I installed the plugin in j edit I guess this is the same text component and one thing that is incredibly annoying is let's go to a new line as an example down here and when I do sorry when I do open bracket it automatically adds a closed bracket okay makes sense now personally I never like this kind of feature I always turn them off but I can live with them of course and this also works if I do this bracket and if I do of course the square bracket sorry which is this one now why do I turn this things off because my muscle memory is always closed open and close and the more advanced editors correctly guess that if I'm putting a closed bracket and there is a closed bracket just after that then I probably just want to skip after it this one doesn't so I often end up with this but in general mathematics doesn't close it's on brackets a lot of times like I'll make you an example if I have to do the open set between the numbers zero and three I can write it like this but most times in calculus the notation is zero closed bracket zero three open bracket without the closed one which is super weird I personally hate it but that's just what the notation is and every time there's this I have to you know remove the extra open because I didn't actually need it and this is a slightly annoying and also yes this is going to be around about closing brackets so you can feel free to skip ahead if you're bored and also the square bracket one is incredibly unreliable like sometimes if I do like this it works and let me try to reproduce here it works here it works okay I don't know but in some cases which I don't remember right now it doesn't actually auto close so I need when I'm type typing to actually guess if it's going to auto close or not and I don't think is that it doesn't work I just think that in some cases something which again I don't remember now just inhibits the the ability to actually close it maybe it's supposed to be open in some specific scenarios I don't know but sometimes it doesn't close and also the the round one and sometimes I just have to guess and as I lost hours of lectures like I was writing notes and then I had to stop for like five minutes to check again all of my brackets which are a lot because it's complex mathematics and I've got a lot of brackets I need to stop and go through all of them to see where I forgot to close one not like I forgot but where the computer decided to just open up so you could say why don't you just disable auto close brackets because there's no such option and that's what bothers me like you should have an option to remove this feature I don't want this feature I don't want my brackets to be automatically closed I can do it myself any text editor that I've ever used before this add an option to remove that function functionalities if I didn't want it why just I don't understand it because this was just a beautiful latex application until I realized how much this auto close bracket was slowing me and there I saw the github page there are a couple of issues about this and the developer was like well if it doesn't work on that specific scenario then we should probably fix the specific scenario instead of disabling it out together and I understand that I disagree please allow me to just turn it off like please otherwise beautiful app like I don't want the negative sides to be more exposed that they should gnome is I really like gnome and even like g-edit I know I talked better about it but it's a good app in itself and I think it's just that the counterpart keelei dolphin and also kate are really good so it's a very high level of competition and I think in these three areas the kd part is significantly stronger on the shell itself I don't get the same impression I think that gnome the actual shell is very strong a very strong product so I now transfer the question in everybody's mind am I going back to kde not yet not yet but I actually want to try out elementary before going back to kde I will soon have to leave my gnome desktop sadly but I will switch to elementary and I actually both a new computer to review with elementary out of the box on it and I want to try it out I've actually both it more than one month ago and star lab if you're listening to me can you please give me some shipping updates because I've received none and it's been a month I think I'm gonna send them an email but hopefully I will soon receive it and I will tell you my opinions on elementary os instead and then hopefully in two three months kde plasma is going to have gestures and I can actually switch back and be a normal kde developer on kde plasma I still do kde developing on the kde plasma session but just for developing anyway that was everything if you're interested in seeing me you know talk about again I want to say that you know gnome is good don't get the wrong impression I know I said a lot of bad things but that's only the things I didn't like there's also a lot of things that I do like and that just integrate integrate so nicely in my daily workflow that I don't even notice them so if you want me to do other videos about other things well you can subscribe of course but you can also give me some bucks inside of like patreon people the sort of stuff even libra pay if you are a open source fan I don't know and that actually helps for you know maybe in the future buying other things to review laptops I want to put my hands on a steam deck so bad but I don't have the money 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