Thumbnails are not polish. They’re an essential feature of working with images.

shadowgovt · on June 17, 2022

The devil's advocate response is "How essential could they be? We went decades without 'em."

I don't think it's the right answer, but it's an answer that works (GNOME continues to be the dominant Linux desktop environment in spite of lacking that feature).

jasonlotito · on June 17, 2022

Completely realizing you aren't actually making the "devil's advocate response," but I think the response to that is "We went for a millennia without electricity, too."

Just because we went without something, doesn't mean we should accept life without it at this point.

TillE · on June 17, 2022

GNOME has enjoyed the status of being basically usable, if not particularly good, throughout its history.

I still remember KDE going through what felt like years of being unusably broken during its clumsy transition from 3 to 4. That's a lot of the desktop Linux experience, really - everything constantly in flux, never quite usable. I don't blame anyone for this, it's hard to get stuff done without someone paying a team to do it, but it's really unfortunate.

doubled112 · on June 17, 2022

After flip flopping a bunch, I ditched both GNOME and KDE for Xfce and haven't felt like I've missed much. It might need some better defaults, but you only have to fix them once on a new install.

Nothing huge changes, and really, I'm not looking for much. A launcher. A way to switch windows. Volume and brightness buttons/applets are nice to have. A system tray.

I've heard somebody somewhere along the lines call it the "Debian of DEs" and I can't argue with that.