For one, the DPI scaling is perfect. Everything is crisp, clean vectors. There are no text scaling issues, no hinting issues, no antialiasing issues. It is simply a pleasure to use GNOME on a 4K display.
For two, the trackpad gesture support is perfect. Everything feels super natural and connected to your movement, and the spring animations are super nice. My only gripe is that there's no elastic overscroll in GTK apps, but eh. Firefox has it, and that's the majority of my computer time.
For three, somehow everything manages to have a mostly consistent theme despite GNOME not supporting server-side decorations. I was not expecting this.
I rebased to Kinoite to try KDE Plasma and couldn't get past the terrible scaling issues, the extremely outdated design, and the total lack of consistency. And forget about trackpad gestures. In fact, they don't even let you change your trackpad's cursor speed! Hope you like the default!
Most of what I like about GNOME is not Silverblue-specific. Although, being able to install Nvidia drivers with two commands and have them work flawlessly is almost certainly Silverblue-specific.
For two, the trackpad gesture support is perfect. Everything feels super natural and connected to your movement, and the spring animations are super nice. My only gripe is that there's no elastic overscroll in GTK apps, but eh. Firefox has it, and that's the majority of my computer time.
For three, somehow everything manages to have a mostly consistent theme despite GNOME not supporting server-side decorations. I was not expecting this.
I rebased to Kinoite to try KDE Plasma and couldn't get past the terrible scaling issues, the extremely outdated design, and the total lack of consistency. And forget about trackpad gestures. In fact, they don't even let you change your trackpad's cursor speed! Hope you like the default!
Most of what I like about GNOME is not Silverblue-specific. Although, being able to install Nvidia drivers with two commands and have them work flawlessly is almost certainly Silverblue-specific.