God yeah, what a frustrating sentiment to see. Very common among people who won't give the fediverse any modicum of good faith engagement. "This is different from what people are used to and is therefore bad" instead of understanding that maybe there's a reason it's built that way.
My shortlist is probably WipEout Pulse (I love how that entire series feels like a game made out of electronic music, the same way Doom is made out of metal), WipEout 2048 (for the same reason, but I played it even more), Forza Motorsport 2 (cuz it had a huge influence on my taste at a very young age), and then maybe Gran Turismo 5?
As a sidenote, I'm very impressed by how much Avowed is reminding me of some of my favourite memories playing Fable I and II back in the day. It feels like the same sort of action RPG, with the blending of swords, bows/guns, and magic. Certainly an unexpected treat, given the more obvious Skyrim comparisons that game has been getting.
A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it's trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.
I think all I really want is something shaped like this with a keyboard, like an old Blackberry that could be used as a terminal.
Damn this thread really makes me feel like a minority, but I prefer GNOME! It comes useful out of the box, sane defaults, easy to extend without ripping out the soul of how it functions. Best of all it has a new and interesting direction for the desktop UI rather than just copying Windows. It has some original ideas that really serve it well.
Running this on Fedora, and when I try to log into my account I get the following error:
(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_error_new_literal: assertion 'message != NULL' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_task_return_error: assertion 'error != NULL' failed (lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: GTask 0x558c1e157780 (source object: (nil), source tag: (nil)) finalized without ever returning (using g_task_return_*()). This potentially indicates a bug in the program.