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2019! yes you have been living under a rock ... it's really good if you have a fairly new machine ..
Well it does not even have to be fairly new, at least I do not consider my 8 years old PC as fairly new at all and it still is really good. As that is also one of the areas where Plasma has improved a lot during the years, they really have made it quite lightweight. Especially when considering how powerful and feature-full and configurable it is.
It's running well on my 2013 laptop as well.
It runs fine on my 2009 laptop too, it's solid
Well my machine is over 10 years old at this point, so I'll stay with gnome.
I tried it couple days ago as a (relatively) happy gnome user. Cannot install Chinese input method via gui, I also don't think there is gui for fingerprint registration either.
Just jumped back to gnome.
Personally, I enjoy gnome workflow, like GUI, hate system maintenance, and like to keep everything as vanilla as possible. And I think KDE is probably not for people like me.
Played with it a while ago. Nice looking but feels bloated in general. Mind you. I lean on pretty light Distros, KDEconnect and a few of their other apps are top tier, though.