I had to use Gnome the other day and I did not enjoy it. What started out as a few "hmmm, that's kinda weird" misgivings quickly grew into a more powerful "oh, oh no, this is all wrong" terror. Everything felt familiar, but slightly off, like a bad dream.
I found that I could not do tasks that I've been doing for decades, such as moving a dialog window out of the way to see what was underneath, nor could I set my background to plain, solid color to cut down on distractions.
Looking deeper I found that Gnome was composed of so many dreadful decisions and baffling behaviors that I was going to have to write a long-winded article complaining about it all. So read on if you'd like to hear about the many, MANY ways that Gnome is bad, and how to fix it!
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