GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

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GNOME Devs May Replace 'Activities' Label with this Indicator - OMG! Linux
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@TCB13 @thegreenguy I prefer it the way it is. If you love the Windows design so much, just use KDE.

No, KDE is even worse than GNOME. GNOME has some sense of design and things are properly designed most of the time, consistent spacing between elements and whatnot, KDE fails on that. GNOME fails on providing a basic desktop experience to those familiar with Windows and macOS.

GNOME is easily modified to suit those workflows. Some distros even offer simple apps to do the heavy lifting of setting up a layout for you, like Manjaro and Zorin.

What do you use atm?

Because, once again, extensions and quicks fixes doesn't provide the same experience as built in features. Eg. GNOME 3.28 removed desktop icons and the extensions currently available don't provide the same polished experience.

Fair enough. Though if you've not tried a lot of these extensions recently I'd bet you'd be surprised with the quality that some of them have nowadays. Ubuntu for example uses a handful of GNOME extensions to replace lost functionality like taskbar icons and desktop icons with good enough quality that most of their users don't even notice it was ever missing.