I cannot stand Gnome. I would genuinely prefer to use Bash-only than try to deal with Gnome.

I use the Cinnamon desktop, and Gnome apps and applets occasionally leak into Cinnamon “intact.” They’re easy to spot; the app opens as a large and mostly featureless blank window where all of the controls are crammed up into the top bar. open is all the way to the left, save is all the way to the right. Open and Save are spelled out as words, New and Save As are icons. Most everything else is in a hamburger menu, which usually isn’t much because Gnome eschews menus, settings, configurations, options, or additional functionality. The app does the very middle of the road most normal use case for the task it’s designed for and that is ABSOLUTELY it.

I’m also not on board with the whole rounded corners and bulbous look to everything. Reminds me of that line from The Simpsons: “Okay class, take out your safety pencils and a circle of paper.”