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I made this post because I really like the design of GNOME, and although i'd like customizability, it is mostly enough for my everyday needs. But I want to understand why people may choose other desktop environments..or why you would/would'nt use GNOME.

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[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't use it on the desktop, but it's a pretty great interface on the Pinetab 2 I have. It simply behaves very well with touch input. One annoyance I have though is not having a "right click" with the touchpad built into the keyboard case. I need to use two fingers in Gnome. It's not annoying enough to where I absolutely need to change it though.

[–] wormer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How is the pinetab 2? I think about picking one up now and again but without pen support I'm really unsure. It would be awesome to use it with a wacom pen but otherwise I don't know what I'd use it for. What do you do with it?