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1. Distraction-free: we respect you and include personal digital wellbeing features
2. Accessibility: we work to make computing accessible to all
3. Design: we make a cohesive, modern experience that looks great
4. Free and Open Source: we preserve your freedoms
5. Privacy: your data is yours, and we respect that
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Since we’re gonna be around all day to read, respond, and boost stuff on the fediverse… what are YOUR favorite things about GNOME? 👀
@gnome easy to use, I really like that out of the box feels a really good and nice experience (at least to me)
@gnome That it scales down to mobile phones pretty well! I'm hoping the mobile patches that pmOS uses make it back upstream :) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/GNOME
@gnome btw, some month ago, I tried to do an small donation to gnome, but I got my credit card "block" as a suspicius activity. Is that normal?
@gnome The attitude. Devs for GNOME itself as well as third-party apps all seem united by an idea that software can and should always be made simpler to use. Instead of piling on features to solve edge cases, the problem space is reexamined, and old solutions are replaced by simpler ones which solve more problems.
@gnome All the advanced tech under the hood that is well integrated. RDP remote sessions, Wayland color management/HDR, calendars, connectivity and peripheral controls etc just works.
@gnome can I say what I do not like? Abandoning dark theme for everything except libadwaita GTK4 applications.
Want it or not, close to 80% of software is still on GTK3 or even GTK2. Without a dark theme for GTK3 GNOME switched from being the most consistent to the least consistent DE
@gnome Tip: add free amount choice and single time payment.
Love your work, using Gnome on Fedora Workstation, not into subscriptions at all.
@verymetalsite it’s there, just scroll down. :)
https://donate.gnome.org/#one-time
We, like most non-profits, strongly encourage recurring donations—even if much smaller!—because it helps the Foundation budget and plan. This post covers the idea in a bit more detail: https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06/26/donate-less/
But we also understand that everyone’s circumstances and preferences are different, which is why there’s a one-time option down below as well. Do whatever makes sense for you, and we appreciate it either way!
@gnome I am an extremely visual person. (This is why I've used Macs for decades!) So I appreciate the attention to design and detail in GNOME and how much I can feel at home when I install and use new apps because of the HIG. Been running Asahi Linux on my Mac mini M1 and love that GNOME feels incredibly snappy and smooth!
@gnome consistent and responsive apps.
I use Niri to organize my windows, and GNOME apps integrate so well.
They adapt to the screen size they have, and they have a consistent look and feel. I feel at home.
@gnome Tiling windows side by side is nice, and being able to resize the windows to different sizes while staying tiled is really appreciated.
@gnome
I'm a KDE user for about two decades, so not a usual response: the logo (from early 2000s)
@gnome for someone with ADHD like myself, the design helps keep me focused on my work and not get distracted with all the other doohickeys that other DE's have, or the need to spend all day customizing my DE.
@gnome Apart from what has already been mentioned I love the search because it lets me access almost anything instantly! In general, the workflows feel very snappy which is probably thanks in part to the consistent design.
@bricked yes! Search is such a powerful part of the desktop. It's hard to use anything else after you've gotten used to using it. 😅
The design is coherent and unified out of the box, and the fonts and icons are sharp and legible
I could tinker with extensions if I wanted to, but the default experience is so polished and unified that I tend not to
@gnome Probably prudent to say what Gnome is first - for those who do not yet know, such as I.
@thibaultamartin absolutely; the work that the design team and developers of libadwaita and GTK have been doing has been excellent not just for adapting to form factors like mobile, but for tiling and just having little windows open!
Bringing that consistency and adaptiveness to the platform has been a years-long effort from a bunch of really amazing contributors, and we’re proud that it’s paying off no matter where you use GNOME apps. ☺️
@gnome It's just so easy to use and everything works.
Also, the fact that GNOME is antifa!
@gnome For me personally and in my daily life the non-distracting nature of GNOME is the big thing. The focus on design and building a cohesive experience is a close second. There's much more than that though.
@thibaultamartin shout outs to @tbernard, @monster, @kramo, @bragefuglseth, @jimmac, @snwh, @alice, @mclasen, and many more! As well as all of the developers making an awesome ecosystem of apps that utilize and build on this work.
@gnome It enables me to get things done, and just gets out of my way the rest of the time.
@gnome 1. Feet
2. Clean, consistent design
3. Workflow
4. Inclusive community!
@gnome I appreciate Adwaita's design language, its inclusive community, and the innovative approach behind many of the new features that emerge from the developers' efforts 🫶
@gnome The ecosystem of beautiful, stable, easy to use applications ❤️
@gnome I love Gnome and I'd like to support you.
But I do not like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Paypal and Stripe. …
Is there a way to donate via SEPA, Cash or even better somehow using GNU Taler?
@NGI_Taler @Taler
@gnome the shell! both the keyboard and the touchpad navigation are awesome, as are the search providers!
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@gnome the look, the mac os feel and the wide availability of programming languages to develop gnome apps in, enabling a strong app ecosystem
@gnome gnome is really beautiful
I just wish there was the abilitey to split the screen into 4 corners like cinnamon
@gnome GNOME is design-driven, in the way that user experience comes first. While an opinionated approach may not suit everybody’s workflow, in my view it leads to better, more testable and more polished products.
Also the community. Started on Graphs as a humble side-project, and was positively surprised by the amount of help and feedback I got from GNOME community, including the always fantastic design team. There’s few processes where I learned more than when we joined #GNOMECircle.
@gnome The hundreds of Adwaita apps that are instantly usable because they all follow the same design logic.
@gnome I appreciate that developers can write a GNOME application in whatever language they choose, as long as there are bindings available. Whilst I personally prefer compiled languages like Rust, if you want to write an app in Python, Go, etc, you can.
@gnome Contrary to what many people think, I could adapt #GNOME48 to my particular needs and blogged about my customizations: https://karl-voit.at/Gnome-Setup/
gsettings is great to reproduce the setup on other machines. 👍
#GNOME shines on simple setups but seems to have some issues when the setup gets a bit more complex.
Furthermore, speed was an issue at my side: I was a heavy user of invoking the GNOME shell for starting applications and switch windows but unfortunately that was a bit of a drag to be honest.
Visually, the GNOME UI is great.
@gnome My favorite thing about Gnome and GTK is that there are great alternatives out there.
@gnome I love how easy it is to plug in a Nextcloud, Google, Microsoft, etc... account and the ability to build software around these accounts with GOA is really cool (and super simple).
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@gnome Also, especially getting involved in development within the ecosystem, kinda was an incentive for me to join #FriendsOfGNOME.
The project has given me a lot with my own development work. So it makes sense to me to give something back, even if symbolically. In a sense it’s been life-changing as I don’t expect to have gotten in the line of work I’m in now if it weren’t for personal FOSS projects, where GNOME played a central role for me.
@sstendahl that’s such an awesome story, thank you for sharing. And thank you so much for your support!
@SpaciousCoder78 @gnome I’ve been on Macs for 15 years, running Linux servers for 20. Last time I touched a desktop Linux OS was 2008
Recently got a used Thinkpad and put Debian Trixie and GNOME on it to get back to my roots and explore desktop Linux. I was taken aback at how just *nice* GNOME 48 is. Just a well laid out desktop environment with fun Easter Eggs like extensions, touchpad support and useful notifications. It’s a peaceful experience of man and machine and I’ve been enjoying it all
@SpaciousCoder78 @gnome I prefer #kde, but both look much better than Windows
@gnome Gnome truly changed my concept of a desktop. It's clean, simple, and no any files on my wallpaper 