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    9 months ago

    Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn’t. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn’t quite open enough.

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    9 months ago

    Let the chant begin

    KDE! KDE! KDE! Death to foot fetish Death to mice Death to everybody who dont rice

    KDE! KDE! KDE!

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      9 months ago

      Stay in the kitchen where you belong, trash.

      /s

      i love cinnamon.

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    9 months ago

    As a partaker of anime I know that being older isn’t usually an advantage.

    Also KDE wins. Fight me.

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    9 months ago

    i3, not for any smart reason, just bc it was the first tiling wm that i used, and i dont have a reason to switch

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    9 months ago

    After Plasma 6 released I prefer KDE over Gnome every day, I found that Plasma 5 was too messy, inconsistent and unintuitive even if Gnome was lacking in functionality. Even then I decided to move to i3 “just because” and now I’m transitioning to Sway. So far I think Sway is my favorite.

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      9 months ago

      MHH interesting. I honestly haven’t really given kde a fair shot since KDE4 maybe I need to force myself to use Plasma 6. Gnome has really gotten on my nerves lately. But I also know that on Plasma I will mostly recreate my gnome experience (Super key, hot corner …) since these are so ingrained in me from over a decade of using gnome.

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        9 months ago

        KDE4 was a mess, and it annoys me when people that haven’t used it since 4 shit on KDE as “buggy”. Plasma has been fixing so many things since and 6 has done the upgrade to QT6 for future proofing, but it’s a bit buggier than late 5.

        Give it a try, but you’re going to have to wait in more stable distros like Ubuntu and Fedora since they don’t have it out yet. If you wanted to try it in Fedora, the Nobara spin uses the latest 6. Otherwise, Arch and a few other more cutting edge distros are running it, like maybe OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

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        9 months ago

        As far as my experience goes, Gnome workspaces and workflow is still more intuitive and simple. But Plasma 6 workflows has integrated modes where it can work the same if not very similar to Gnome. So in that regard Plasma has been taking notes and bringing all the good things from Gnome.

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    9 months ago

    FVWM.

    I feel like the “desktop environment” is a Faustian bargain. You get a plateload of software that looks consistent, but none of it is best of breed.

    I can recall being a bit wowed by the original KDE 1.0 betas on my old 486, when Konqueror was the file manager as much as the browser, but in the end it felt like thry were trying to recreate the experience you got wth the pack-in software of Windows 95.

    And **** GNOME for really pushing the client-side decorations model. I configured my window manager to put the title bar and close button where I want it, thank you.

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    9 months ago

    Gnome. I’m a Mac refugee from a decade ago. I’ve been using gnome with dash2dock and dash2panel together to make a sudo Mac os.

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    9 months ago

    KDE. I don’t have to change anything (other than taskbars on all monitors rather than just the main one) for an experience I like. Everything just works. Wayland support is best in class.

    I don’t like gnome’s workflow and it takes COSMIC level customization for me to like it. And technical issues are common for me. Namely windows constantly spawning off screen and delayed reactions.

    XFCE’s default layout is absolutely horrible and there’s no Wayland support. Mint XFCE’s implementation is good though.

    Cinnamon, in my experience, is buggy and has similar technical problems to gnome.

    I’ve used i3wm and it’s okay, but I would never use it on my main desktop. Takes a certain kind of workflow.

    I’ve messed with AwesomeWM and can say it’s very ok.

    LXDE/LXQT are obsolete. Not old school, obsolete. And in the case of QT, there’s absolutely no reason to use it when XFCE has the same ram usage anyway.

    I haven’t used any other desktops other than these.