I thought I'd share how happy I've been w/ my Gnome experience these past few years despite the occasionally controversial UI/UX decisions the Gnome folks tend to make.
I use Gnome Online Accounts integration w/ Google (drive, e-mail, calendar & contacts) and it "just works"™ & it does so quite reliably.
It's so polished & well-integrated in the desktop that I often don't even notice that I'm using in on a daily basis ❤️
PS: I'm using Gnome 44.3 on openSUSE Tumbleweed running on an old ThinkPad T530 w/ an nVidia GPU.
I have and had my issues with Gnome, but the Online Accounts and the gnome shell integration are really good and work OOTB with 2-factor authorization for the popular providers.
If the Gnome developers would finally outgrow their 'users are too stupid for tags' position, it would be awesome to have such an integration with Online Accounts. (The only thing I envy the macOS + icloud crowd for.)
What are tags in this context?
tags/labels like you are working on project a, b,c. In macOS, you can now tag files, emails, messages, notes with tag_a, tag_b, tag_c for their respective projects and find everything belonging to project a by searching for tag_a.
The Gnome developers refused to add tagging functionality, because it would be 'confusing' for user to have more than one way (filesystem) to find things.... I mean, if the average Apple user can be trusted to use tags, I see no reason why the average Gnome user would be overwhelmed.
Never heard of that. Interesting concept.
I mean the concept is kinda cool, but I really don’t think the average Apple user is using those. I didn’t even know that existed when I was using macOS a couple months back. Even most Apple power users I know don’t use those or know of them. Probably the hardcore apple fans use them but I don’t know of anyone else that does. It does seem confusing in the long term.
Don't let me rant about the average Apple user/fanboy/power user - way too many in my line of business ... :-P
Using tags is non trivial, the thing is: If you need tags to organize your data, there are not many alternatives to tags. It is IMHO a killer application for knowledge workers and to this day, there are no good solutions on Linux, which is a shame. (Of course, org-mode has tags, but I don't want to learn EMACS).