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The original was posted on /r/gnome by /u/IHumanlike on 2025-10-19 15:31:04+00:00.

I downplayed GNOME for the longest time because my only experience with it was some old Ubuntu version.

After moving away from Windows, and going through many distros, I eventually landed on Fedora KDE because I was too scared of moving away from the familiar Windows workflow.

Not to start any drama with KDE Plasma people, but my personal experience with it wasn’t very good. Many animations felt sluggish. There were weird visual bugs. The multi-monitor support was not good, it “forgot” my layouts and launched apps in the wrong monitor.

Then I decided to try Fedora Workstation on my laptop as an “experiment” and holy crap, my opinion of GNOME totally changed in that instant. Later installed it on my desktop as well.

Instead of having to tinker with Plasma or some other DE for hours trying to to optimize my workflow, GNOME “just works”. It doesn’t feel like a software toy, it feels like something you barely notice so you can actually focus and get work done.

I would like to thank the GNOME and Fedora projects for curing my distrohopping (for the foreseeable future at least). Be sure to at least try it if you are unsure like I was!