Global offline maps including public transport routing and timetables is a fantastic (and if I'm not mistaken, also unique) feature. Google Maps' offline feature by contrast doesn't work globally (some areas are excluded), doesn't include public transport, etc.

Keeping in that same theme--I've love to see Mozilla Translations models (or similar) integrated in GNOME apps where it makes sense to do so--such as Document Viewer, for good-enough offline text translation built into every GNOME environment.

Such features are highly user visible and set GNOME apart from competition in ways that are easy to describe to anyone. No EULAs, no data sovereignty concerns, no dark patterns--just features ready to go for users out-of-the-box that are incredibly useful, user-friendly and consistent.

In saying that--there's of course all the great GNOME stuff under the hood for geeks too--support for almost every audio and video format to have ever existed easily enabled, glycin, sandboxing of applications, easy and consistent software package management for everything (now with obsolescence management built in too)...etc.

Meanwhile it's been over a year and they can't fix the basic screen recording issue:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/work_items/4051

I even pointed LLMs at this and spent extra time to investigate and test it only for my solution to be ignored just like pretty much every other issue/PR.

GNOME looks shiny on the outside, but it's a sea of bugs under the hood..

so happy GNOME exists. I hear great things about KDE internals, but Plasma and KDE apps are so ugly.

modern GNOME is honestly a more consistently clean interface than even (modern) macOS.

I was just wishing the photos app (apparently named Loupe) would show more info from the image metadata regarding the camera I used to take it. Wonderful timing on GNOME's part here.

The accelerometer rotation feature will be an awesome addition, I think so far there is no DE that lets you do that without some custom scripts. I have to test that out real soon. Windows used to handle that pretty good (if you ignore wallpapers breaking etc.) so it was one of the stopping points for users who just want a Linux that works for their AIO laptops.