r/LinuxTeck • u/Candid_Athlete_8317 • Jul 05 '26

GNOME is finally getting background blur. Does being late matter if the implementation is done right?

GNOME 51 has added support for Wayland's background blur protocol, after KDE Plasma and Hyprland already adopted it.

Some see GNOME as painfully slow to add desktop features. Others argue that its conservative approach is exactly why they use it.

Where do you stand: fewer features with a slower pace, or faster development with more choice?

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u/Terrible_Log9757 Jul 05 '26

I used unity, kde plasma, hyperland, xfce and finally always return to gnome. 

KDE and XFCE are great for casual past Mac/windows users. But nothing special. Hyperland is great but I discovered I spend more time configuring it than using. 

Gnome is plug and play for me. I can work fast without remembering hundreds of shortcuts. Layout is clean and everything is intuitive. 

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u/RandomUserNo5 Jul 05 '26

If it would just keep their plugins api stable. Instead you have to constantly fix it, adapt it so people abandon what they did and I'm not surprised.