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I don't love GNOME, but if you use it....whatever. Linux is all about choice and lack of lock-in.
If you want to compile CDE from the 1990s and use it as your DE.....you do you honey boo boo.
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JFC apparent CDE is still around and had a stable release 2 months ago. Holy fucking case-in-point right there.
I used KDE for a long time trying to do things that just worked in Gnome. I finally switched and don't seem to be hunting for anything KDE did
I'll give KDE a try again when they provide a way to track all of my settings via dotfiles. I tinker with shit a lot and I need the ability to track it all with a VCS. I've always kept KDE as a backup but its accrued so much config junk over a decade that its actually a pretty janky experience, and I'm not comfortable just nuking all my dotfules.
These two statements do not contradict themselves.
I am not a bigot. I hate ALL people!
I like Plasma.
I know, real brave take
I love Plasma. It's fast, it's stable, it's beautiful, it's real simple and I intuitive, it's easily customizable via GUI, it's packed with great features (that stay completely out of your way if you don't need them). Even the KDE apps are awesome across the board.
It's all down to preference, yadda yadda, but I honestly don't understand why someone would use something like Cinnamon, XFCE or, god forbid, GN*ME instead of KDE Plasma.
That being said, just use what you wanna use.
I honestly don't understand why someone would use something like Cinnamon, XFCE or, god forbid, GN*ME instead of KDE Plasma.
RAM usage. I sometime restore machines that just wouldn't handle KDE. While GNOME is as heavy as KDE, cinnamon is lighter and xfce even more. An average finished KDE setup eats 4GB for me while a cinnamon one uses 1,5GB and an XFCE one 0,5GB. This makes KDE close to unusable on older 2 or 4GB systems.
Something's not right here. You must be using more features with kde than the other desktops. Agreed the xfce is lighter, but the comparison isn't that drastic. Kde will easily run on 4th ram systems. Configure it the same as xfce and you are at about 2GB ram.
Maybe, but 2GB would still be 4 times heavier than my XFCE average, I just wouldn't use it for a 2 or 4 GB system, other softwares need their RAM too.
Great point!
Might be especially important going forward unfortunately
I tried to use linux on a tablet, I've tried GNOME multiple times since it is apparently the best for touchscreen-only devices. This was hell.
As much as I'd love to be able to like that thing I just can't.
Zero customisability, everything has to be changed through extensions, but the extension manager isn't even part of GNOME's core and has to be installed separately.
The settings page is severely lacking so I had to configure everything in .conf files or through CLI directly.
And the whole thing is as stable as a one-legged chair on top of a unbalanced washing machine.
KDE extension crashing : "oupsie a part of your desktop crashed and restarted as fast as possible, hope you didn't notice"
GNOME extension crashing : "go fuck yourself, I burned your whole session to the ground, log back in and pray you weren't doing anything worth saving"
In the end I customized KDE to look and behave like GNOME, this way around was surprisingly easier than just making GNOME bearable.
Oh and to the taskbar haters out there : my first computer was running windows 95 so you'll be taking my taskbar from my cold dead hands, only KDE let me fulfill my dream of putting taskbars absolutely everywhere (even got two perpendicular ones on my bottom monitor)
I used a few different OSs before Windows 95 and I have also used a taskbar for the past 30 years. It's just a design that I like. It's like I feel grounded or something.
I just use a single taskbar at the bottom of my left-most monitor though. I ain't all fancy like you!
Just use any Linux distro you like!
Stock Ubuntu with GNOME
I like MATE. It's Gnome with the bugs ironed out. It's very nice.
In principal, Gnome is the archetype that we all seek in a desktop.
Ubuntu Mate sounds like what they call regular Ubuntu in Australia.
I started my Linux journey about 5 years ago on mint with the cinnamon DE. It's not the fanciest but it got the job done, no real complaints.
Recently I made the change to debian without too much thought on the DE and I was presented with gnome. Took me about 5 minutes before I was looking up alternatives.
Now on KDE plasma, and out of the 3 I've tried it's definitely my favourite.
They're all fine. You get used to one or another and that's what you want. They all have issues and they all have boons. More often or not, it came down to either what your distro defaulted to, or whatever had that one feature you needed when you first installed (factional scaling) and you just stuck there
Don't you take this nice flame war away from us!
Gnome is very competently made except it's made for a different genre of person to me, and their attitude towards customisation is outright disdainful. You install an extension or mess around in tweaks and gnome looks at you like you just used the salad fork for seafood.
I think it's made for people who like Macs or sth.
Wouldn't be a problem(people can use whatever makes them happy) if the gnome Devs shit attitude didn't trickle outwards and harm customizability in other environments.
just used the salad fork for seafood.
What's wrong with using the same fork for salad and seafood?
All the JavaScript in gnome make it super icky to me as an ex-webdev, and unusable on hardware that is otherwise perfectly fine with other DEs. From high resource usage, memory leaks, and breaking extensions, I have a hard time believing that their userbase is anyone other than mobile native younger folk who are good at consuming via the iPad launcher paradigm. Just my humble opinion, nothing more.