Title: I&#x27;ve been using MATE+Compiz on Archlinux since 2015 because I was used to it and it had a lot of GUI features that I didn&#x27;t find elsewhere. At around the same time, I did give Gnome 3 a spin and found a lot of clunky behavior and bugs. Fast forward to yesterday when I was considering buying a new laptop to replace my ThinkPad x250 which is starting to show its age, I thought I give Gnome on Wayland another try.<p>OMG! It is nothing like I remember it. To put it succinctly, it&#x27;s MacOS interface for linux. It&#x27;s smooth, performant, beautiful and functional. I can do everything I used to have on Compiz, here on Gnome and it&#x27;s built-in. I haven&#x27;t actually needed any Gnome Extensions so far.<p>Well done Wayland, Gnome, GTK and every other project involved in making what&#x27;s essentially the best Linux Desktop experience I&#x27;ve ever had.<p>As for getting a new laptop, that idea went out the window fast. My machine feels like new and I can attest to a significant performance boost of GUI apps as the result of switching to Gnome.
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