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[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 12 points 5 months ago

I think both have their use cases. Gnome is absolutely fantastic, if you use it on a laptop with a touch screen (for university, school, etc), but on desktop I dont really like it that much. I like the simple design, but KDEs customisability is much better. However, their virtual desktops are kinda ass, but I dont really use them on my desktop PC anyways.

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[-] flandish@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Where is TempleOS when you need it, huh?

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Honestly I can't imagine why anyone would use either of these when there are lightweight DEs like XFCE and Cinnamon that are not only easier on the system resources, but also more stable, customizeable, user-friendly and more pleasant to look at. I stopped taking gnome seriously ever since they came up with GTK3. They had a chance to fix it with GTK4 but instead they somehow made it even worse (as if client-side decorations wasn't bad enough, now theyre doing clientside shadows? Seriously!?!?). KDE is allegedly better because it gives the user more options, but anyone who's actually used it will tell you that it suffers from the same kind of bloat and braindead design decisions as gnome.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Gonna talk from KDE positions here. GNOME, too, has its place, but I recognize it's not for everybody.

More pleasant to look at

Certainly not for the average person. For a normie user, KDE looks way way nicer, and it's certainly way more modern than either XFCE or Cinnamon. Sure, the latter can be made into something modernishly enough, but the customization options are way more limited here. Either way, out of the box, KDE is much more preferable to most.

User-friendly

Can hardly find anything that is more user-friendly than KDE. Everything you can possibly think of is available graphically, the interface is extremely sleek and ergonomic, and you can change anything at all to your liking. Which leads us to...

Customizable

Why would anyone say XFCE or Cinnamon are more cutomizable is beyond my comprehension. XFCE can be somewhat reasonably customized, but the anount of technical knowledge required to do anything more than resizing bars is beyond the scope of normal users. Cinnamon is outright rigid, and its customization options are extremely poor by any means. KDE is easily customizable and can be turned into anything through a what-you-see-is-what-you-get graphical editor that requires 0 technical knowledge. Still, if you really want to go the old school way because you're used to it, want something not offered, or can't imagine yourself descending into the GUI designed for plebs, you can do it too. KDE is king when it comes to this aspect.

Stable

As far as XFCE goes, this does hold quite some weight. It has a mature codebase, allowing it to have plenty of things figured out. For mission-critical systems, it might be preferable. Same can't be said for Cinnamon, but either way, every popular DE is stable enough for home use without much worry - including KDE.

In any case, having used all four, I stopped exactly at KDE and GNOME - the former being perfect for casual multitasking and entertainment, the latter being nice for focused work.

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[-] confusedbytheBasics@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I install Fedora Workstation and change nothing. I'm pretty happy with GNOME in that case. KDE has been too fiddley for me the last few times I tried it. It's there a distro that has a default KDE setup that feels minimal and out of the way?

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Nah both Gnome and KDE are incredible and I say that as someone whos been using Linux since early 00s

[-] wolo 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

afaik KDE still doesn't have any tolerable way to tile windows on wayland

if i need to open a menu to set up zones you are doing it wrong. if i have to pick from premade layouts you are doing it wrong. pop shell on gnome would be perfect if it wasn't married to gnome and slowly rotting over time: i can pick up a window, drag it to where i want to put it in the binary tiling tree, and it goes there.

[-] felbane@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

unpopular opinion probably, but I like the configurable zones approach. it's probably because I'm used to fancyzones on my work pc and have gotten used to it.

every time I try to become a cool kid and use i3 or some other tiling wm variant, I get frustrated and go right back to plasma

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[-] kaidezee@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As a Gentoo user, I can say that qtbase is probably the one piece of software that caused me the most failed emerges due to some conflict of python packages.

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[-] Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

I wish KDE worked well on Touch screens. It seems to really fail at that. Don't tell me it's X11. X11 on Gnome doesn't think my touches are a mouse. KDE thinks it is though.

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[-] Zanshi@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Eh, Gnome is fine. I like KDE, but I'd rather use my PC for the stuff I want to use it for rather than obsessively change some stuff so it looks better only to change it the next time I boot it again.

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[-] farcaster@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

KDE has almost perfect fractional scaling, that was the real chadfeature for me.

[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Gnome was the main obstacle in Wayland adoption, by not implementing "server-side decorations".

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