Came to say what most have already: It works already as well / better than Gnome, doesn't require superduper hardware, stable, why the feck did I wait until 2025 to try it? Not looking back.
honestly I would say it hasn't really gotten into it's groove/good until like a few months into this year. It's gotten A LOT better than what it was. So waiting until now to try it was a good call actually.
It's the little things that matter.
My only beef with KDE is just that there's always been 'too much' of it. Like, every settings screen and right-click context menu just like, goes on for days.
There needs to be a prominent toggle switch between 'Turbo Nerd Mode' and 'Babby's First DE'.
there is depending on what distro you're on and the packages they provide for Plasma.
Like Arch for example you can get a barebones basic version of KDE Plasma. NixOS you can tell it to ignore certain parts of Plasma from the package when you're building it. I would assume other distros have something similar. This applies to the settings too. you can literally make your plasma include zero kwin stuff if you wanted.
I just moved to Plasma from XFCE and my first thought was wow, this runs fine on old hardware, why have I been suffering through the 2010 experience when I could have had features all this time!?
Yeah, I went down a similar path.
It turns out ever since a few years ago, Plasma takes comparable resources to XFCE.
What really sent me over the edge was Plasma's support for Wayland.
Aww, I will always love XFCE and save a place for it in my heart ... but I moved to Plasma 2 years ago and haven't really looked back either >_>
XFCE is fine, it seems to largely behave and while it doesn't have any bells and whistles it can do everything it tries to do fine. Gnome on the other hand... everything I wanted it to do required a plugin which had since been broken by a new version. Plasma seems great so far!
Agreed. I was actually afraid to modify my KDE desktop for months because of the trauma sustained from just trying to customize Gnome a bit. My configuration is still pretty vanilla, but it's got enough personal flair to it that it feels uniquely mine and I'm the happiest I've been.
GNOME is Mac's DE for Linux.
At least Mac has the whole menu bar going for it. I started out on GNOME but the empty bar in the top just bothered me. Then I went XFCE but I kept running into small annoyances, that probably could be fixed somehow but I don’t really have time to fight/tweak my computer. And now I’m on Plasma and so far it just works and the small tweaks I have done were quick.
Including the limitations of options, albeit worse than Apple. I really don't understand the hubris of that team.
I'd argue that it's Android's DE for Linux.
Well, itwas a long road getting front he first Plasma version to today's
I've only been a Linux user for a couple of years though so I've got no excuse!
Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back
Neurodivergent people when it automatically switches to light mode:
happens to me on random websites and it wakes me tf up when i'm surfing just before bed. lol
What a banger release! Last time they focused on bug hunting, this time its about features. This ping pong focused development is very nice.
~ character to toggle the functionality: "~file" to enable fuzzy in example, if its disabled by default. I may even make a suggestion in the issue tracker, but I don't know what options they integrated into it yet.Every time I try KDE I get burned by some bugs. How is stability?
Baloo for example was some source of pain for me. And if I look at the bug tracker I do not get confidant. https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&field0-0-1=component&field0-0-2=alias&field0-0-3=short_desc&field0-0-4=status_whiteboard&field0-0-5=content&order=changeddate+DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=substring&type0-0-1=substring&type0-0-2=substring&type0-0-3=substring&type0-0-4=substring&type0-0-5=matches&value0-0-0=baloo&value0-0-1=baloo&value0-0-2=baloo&value0-0-3=baloo&value0-0-4=baloo&value0-0-5=%22baloo%22
Works fine for me. ¯\_( ᵔ ~ ᵔ )_/¯
Same. I always try it out and run into some critical bug causing me to abandon it.
My Linux Mint install with Cinnamon "just works", so I've been sticking with that and hoping Wayland support goes stable soon, because I hate X Server.
the only issues I had with KDE when I was recently using it all revolved around the panel. Random crashes with "too much" interaction. Adding widgets for the panel or desktop is still to this day hit or miss. clicking the "get new widget" option is a roll of the dice if it will actually work or not or even find the thing you want. It's still horrible at loading stuff in there. and installing whatever, again, is a roll of the dice if it will actually do it or not.
I like KDE, it's a good and solid DE but man do they really need to focus on fixing the panels and the installation/discovery of widgets. The alternative is using the pling store and that's just a headache on it's own.
Great, but when kbigscreen.
I need a decent Chromecast replacement
biKscreen
BigSkreen
cool. ill update when i get the time.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks ugly? Don't get me wrong, they are improving it in many ways and it's going in the right direction, plus a ton of features and customizability, but when I look at Gnome I don't doubt for a second where I want to be.
Yep. Ugly, disjointed in appearance, etc. I set up Debian KDE for a family member moving from windows so it fits. I was impressed that KDE came far from what it was but it very much is like a bucket of bolts to me.
Gnome in contrast is very put together. Yes, has some quirks but appearance wise is very curated IMO.
I'm fairly new and happened to choose KDE for my own taste, but I would argue GNOME is not "fully" polished as per this post. The nits there may be small or mindless to GNOME diehards, but from a design standpoint, they seem pretty... rough.
Way too much for me to care. I admit gnome isn't perfect but I'll still argue it's far more consistent than KDE.
They are two opposite styles of UI.
However, KDE has a fuckton of customization possibilities that I have always been dreaming of in GNOME.
And I'm saying this as a GNOME guy, absolutely zero fanboyism here.
Well, that's kind of the thing, except for a few things I don't want to customize it that much, when I've tried KDE in the past I just customized it a bit and it looked like shit because I didn't spend that much time into it. I know you can make it look pretty, but I'd rather waste that time learning how to use Hyperland to be honest since it's way more customizable and offers something else completely. Except for a better KDE Connect integration I don't think I'm missing anything I would need on Gnome.
I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.
(Although I would not call KDE ugly)
You are not the only one. Its a taste. I personally like the KDE look the most, its beautiful to me. No other desktop environment looks this good.
when I look at Gnome I don’t doubt for a second where I want to be
Yeah me neither, from the other side, lol
kde is pretty enough, it's not exactly trendy but I feel they're going the best they could do while keeping information density
I guess KDE remembering your previous monitor layout after temporarily switching to built in only for laptops is still too big an ask. Related merge has work done but is indefinitely closed and shelves. What a shame.
And Debian Sid is still stuck on 6.3.6 :(
Hopefully they figure out the qt update thing and get the new version packaged soon?
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