Gnome is better macOS than macOS

Summary

Recently, I bought my first-ever MacBook. I’ve spent some time with it, and I gotta say - despite all that hot garbage that is thrown at GNOME for being an OSX clone, GNOME does the job better than I’ve expected, and certainly better than Apple. In some areas, that is. Good old days of Linux A bit of a backstory. I’ve been using GNUplusSlashLinux for more than fifteen years. Most of the time, I used GNOME, starting from GNOME2, moving to Unity maybe for two years, then GNOME Shell, then KDE Plasma 5 for another two years, and switched back to GNOME Shell again. I’m not mentioning some of my at most month-long endeavors to other DEs, like XFCE, or tiling WMs, because they never stuck with me. So I’ve been there for most releases of GNOME Shell, followed them closely, even used to run Ubuntu GNOME when GNOME Shell became a thing, until it became the default in Ubuntu once again. Though by that time, I had already moved from Ubuntu to a different distribution for a variety of reasons. I wasn’t always satisfied by GNOME, and was a fair bit vocal about it in the past - even got myself banned from r/gnome subreddit, for shitting on it too much. That’s why I experimented with other desktop environments, particularly Unity and KDE. Unity felt like a breath of fresh air after GNOME2, mostly because Canonical took years of people trying to make GNOME2 more OSX-like, and made decent steps in that direction. A global menu, HUD, blur, buttons on the left - you name it, it was there. Granted, it wasn’t an OSX clone - rather, it was its own thing, and I still remember Unity days fondly. I switched to GNOME Shell almost instantly as it was released as Ubuntu GNOME spin, and while it was a bit janky, Unity started to lose steam, and GNOME looked like a hot new thing. Figure 1: Anyone else remember that wallpaper? GNOME sure has come a long way I did, however, run Unity on my older PCs, as it was far less taxing on resources than early versions of GNOME3, but then it was discontinued...