Things went downhill from here

Things went downhill from here.

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no

why would you ever need 2 bars? Everything fits into one

>Everything fits into one
it doesn't, that's why they removed EVERYTHING from the panel after leaving only one

1000% agreed my brotha

mate is just not the same
xfce is trash
everything else is a joke

I wish I could get this icon theme from somewhere.

>mate is just not the same
What is MATE missing?
Do you mean that MATE uses GTK3?
If yes you could port GTK2 themes to GTK3 and call it a day.

GNOME2 was the XP of Linux DEs.

No, that's just the Gnome team being retarded.

unity was kino
gnome2 was lukewarm at best

okay i know this "soul" thing is a meme, etc etc
but this kind of desktop has its very own identity and looks inviting even though it's all brown or whatever

If only there could be a standalone WM that emulates GNOME2 without being dependent on GTK.
Imagine something like how they turned fvwm into CDE with NSCDE but with GNOME2 instead.

it got killed off because onions devs took over the project and wanted to use css for everything. thats what you get when web dev niggers get involved.

gnome 1.4 was better.

Man I miss old Linux. Desktop Linux is a joke now.

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Why is it a joke now?
Just use MATE/TDE or IceWM,Fvwm,E16,WindowMaker,Sawfish and others.

ubuntu 9.10 was the last good version

GNOME 1.x was basically just a KDE 2 ripoff

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heres kde for comparison

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Yes, but GNOME back then had enlightenment and after that Sawfish as a window manager which were way more powerful than Kwin.

>having nostalgia for old versions of linux where everything was fucked up and hardware barely worked and DEs/apps were even more unusable than they are now
i'm convinced you people never actually used it and are just memeing based on screenshots

I really want to pet this cat.

Soul
Soulless.
Why did the gnome team give up if they had just improved on this version of gnome instead of removing all of the features they would have been bigger than kde and gtk would be the main Linux toolkit today.

I don't have nostalgia for the Kenrel I have nostalgia for the DEs and WMs.
I'd rather take something unstable over something that is just plain shit.
At least unstable software can be fixed.

>at least unstable software can be fixed
it was fixed, they called it gnome 40 and kde plasma 5 and they both made you seethe

Removing all the features and bloating it up with animations and effects isn't fixing.

>demand stable software
>all the unstable broken features are removed and replaced with stable working ones
>noooo not like that
animations aren't "bloating" it takes about 100 lines of code to implement most animations
you can turn off the animations anyway