I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand
GNOME 3&#x2F;Shell was something I hated with every fiber in my body until someone told me to actually give it a chance.  They said &quot;don&#x27;t compare it to Windows, don&#x27;t compare it to macOS, don&#x27;t compare it to Gnome 2, just try and learn its idioms and go from there&quot;.<p>It turns out, at least for me, he was 100% right.  I grew to <i>really</i> like Gnome after I dropped all preconceived notions about what it was supposed to be.  I ended up loving the fact that the number of virtual desktops is dynamic, I ended up really liking how much could be done without a mouse, and I ended up being kind of surprised how it was both pretty <i>and</i> fast on my (admittedly fairly beefy) laptop.<p>I use macOS right now dude to the fact that I got it at a discount, but the next computer I buy will probably be a Linux machine, and it will probably be running Gnome.