But I’ll be honest: GNOME is huge and kind of bloated, and it’s hard to disable various unwanted components. GNOME Shell is amazing, but a lot of the other components of GNOME are simply unwanted. This is what turns a lot of power users away from GNOME, which I think is a shame given all of the other amazing things about GNOME. While you won’t find these instructions in the GNOME manuals, if you know what you’re doing modern GNOME releases make it very easy to lobotomize a lot of the unneeded and unwanted features.
why hack a bag of bolts like gnome? the less people using it the better, failing to listen you your users and deciding you know what they want better than they do is deserving of fading into obscurity like it so surly is…
As a GNOME user I’ve heard people argue your point since 2.0 and it hasn’t come to pass. They don’t do everything right and they often overstep or oversimplify and this article sort of matches the parts of GNOME I currently don’t care for too much (except for Tracker, sort oft). So yea, for some people this might be interesting and useful.
It is the big DE. It’s here, get used to it. It just won’t take over the entire desktop and kill off all the competition.
Just what we need a lobotimized midget on our desktop.
I completely agree with the listed components as being bloat and will be applying the clean-up on my system as well.
He lost me at “GNOME Shell is amazing”. Seriously, is not.
The author seems to like GNOME because he is already a fanboy of thigs like SystemD and Wayland, which obviously integrate better with GNOME, since they are designed to push each other.
This doesn’t seem very well researched. Several of the points, for example, are about disabling the ability to install Shell plugins. But that’s pointless – disabling the ability to install plugins will do nothing that can’t be achieved simply by not installing any. It doesn’t change the fact that Shell uses a javascript engine, and that that engine will be running any time you’re running Gnome.
Besides, it’s stupid advice, given that as much as I like Gnome, there are one or two extensions that are absolutely critical in making it usable…