At the beginning of the year, I finally switched to Debian 13 stable XFCE, and that was a very good decision. Now I don’t even notice the operating system anymore, which is how it should be.
Is that the Gnome or KDE version?
GNOME with a few tweaks: brought back the minimize/maximize buttons and added Dash to Panel.
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2 weeks ago I started playing around MX Linux KDE. It’s a nice distro very polished and modern compared to Linux Mint. I did manage to break it a few times, although the fix wasn’t that hard. I like how it enables the firewall by default something that most distros leave off including Linux Mint. I think ill try MX Linux XFCE next in my Linux distro journey. So far i’ve tried Ubuntu , Kubuntu , Linux Mint & Zorin OS.
What the [redacted] were they thinking when they removed those buttons?
After using gnome for a while, those two buttons really aren’t needed and are superfluous in my opinion. Maximize is too restrictive, it’s better to use the drag tiling like it works now, and to minimize, why would you want to minimize an application? Just open a different one. Minimization only exists due to the horrible workflow created by microsoft in having a “desktop” where icons and other trash appears, it distracts and pulls people away from proper file system management. There is absolutely zero need for a “desktop” in my opinion.
Maybe I hold these views due to using window managers every day, I used to think that those buttons were required, not anymore.
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I respectfully disagree, and there is clearly room for disagreement given the plethora of window managers out there. For those that don’t like maximize and/or minimize, it’s straightforward to just ignore the buttons. For those that do like those functions, removal of the buttons transforms the functions from one-click to two-click, which actually does affect those users.
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Gnome definitely went overboard trying to simplify desktop. Luckily it is pretty easy to restore what you need. I find end results superior to myriads of KDE settings that I don’t need.
It is the difference between permitting someone to use something if they wish (in this case buttons), and proscribing something, so that nobody can use it.
Compare and contrast with politicians passing laws that either permit or proscribe.
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