For people who already tried both, what’s the reason you’re sticking with GNOME or KDE as your desktop environment?
A question for GNOME/KDE users
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- 9 minutes
I use KDE on my desktop, Cinnamon on my laptop. I really dislike the way Gnome looks, but aside from that I’m really dependant on my mouse. Gnome doesn’t seem to appreciate that. I also don’t like their approach of dumbing things down and forcing their ways on the user.
Back in the day I really liked Unity. It was simple, looked good and optimised the screen like nothing else did at the time. When Ubuntu ditched it, I ditched Ubuntu.
- 13 minutes
I used to be a gnome 2 user for a long time. I sometimes tried out KDE but it seemed to unstable so I moved back to gnome.
But the problems started with gnome 3. I had never put much effort into customizing my desktop but I just didn’t like the defaults for gnome 3. Even worse some things I didn’t like were hard to change, some required plug-ins (that sometimes broke) and some just couldn’t be fixed at all.
I could use my system but it always felt a bit like I did so begrudgingly. That was when I wasn’t using Linux full time. When I finally wanted to ditch windows completely I tried a lot. Different DEs, different distros and so on and I noticed that KDE felt good. I was skeptical but I gave it a real chance and I stayed. It feels good. It’s not perfect but I really like it. It is customizable enough but has sensible defaults. It doesn’t get in my way and I don’t use it begrudgingly.
I started with gnome back when Linux was a very young project. Then they started removing options despite the protests of their users so I moved to kde, which added functionality constantly, much to the delight of their users.
And many years later, here we are.
- esc@piefed.socialEnglish2 hours
I’m sticking with KDE because I like to have some say in how my computer behaves, like I prefer to have a sidepanel with useful things and not top panel with calendar. I also like to have window buttons like minimize, maximize, close, pin, etc.
- comrademiao@piefed.socialEnglish1 hour
Gnome feels like Linux to me, I don’t want discount Windows, I could just use Windows.
I don’t need or want to customize every little detail, I have a life.
Testing out KDE broke a lot of video and mouse inputs, don’t find it worth trying to fix just to test.
Naming everything with K is dumb as hell.
- 2 hours
Tuning / ricing is overrated. I used to spend
hoursyears ricing my desktop (enlightenment DR16 anyone?). Screw that, Gnome it is: simple, elegant, functional.I do add 2 very useful plugins tho: Wobbly Windows and the Spinning Cube. Shows my age I guess.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
the gnome on the distro I had before did not work well with windows snapping so I installed kde. my current distro kde is the default.
5 hoursI test KDE each couple of years: install it on my current OS or in VM, trying to change theme/move panel, get a crash shortly after, then delete it. Even “kde neon” that was supposedly polished distro from devs themselves, crashed within could of minutes in my hands.
Maybe it just my hands, but Gnome never does that.
- 7 hours
I used KDE for years only recently switched to Niri, what I can say for KDE is I don’t have to dicking around config files and nice features that are missing from other WM/DE like ICC profiles and HDR also very easy to customize. The reason I switch is because KDE getting too good and boring and using Niri reminded me when I use Linux for the first time again (same with switching from Windows to Linux because Windows is boring and barely customizable and cuntpilot)
- 6 hours
Gnome. I am often tempted to switch to kde because it is often ahead in terms of adopting new technologies, but gnome is just more comfortable to use. And I was not able to customize kde to have gnome-like workflow.
- sando_en_shorts@piefed.worldEnglish5 hours
Some users are saying there’s a proper way to use Gnome or else you’ll have hard time working with it, is that true for you?
- DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.orgEnglish7 hours
GNOME visually reminds me of iPadOS (not good) and just hasn’t been as intuitive as KDE. Both are usable, KDE just came easier to me.
- DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.orgEnglish7 hours
The best thing about this comment is we all know which is which
- 8 hours
I’ve used both pretty extensively (years daily driving each) but these days I just use stock KDE, with maybe a couple little adjustments to the taskbar. I like both. I can adapt to different desktop workflows, GNOME’s is good, but I found myself always using plugins to make it work more like a windows desktop. I generally like the KDE suite of default applications a lot more than GNOME’s, like Dolphin is just a better file manager than nautilus. And if I’m going to use KDE applications and a windows-styled desktop layout, at that point I might as well just use KDE.
- 9 hours
GNOME expects the user to adapt to the workflow its developers have in mind. It’s the desktop environment that should adapt to me, not the other way around.
Plus, I love customization and theming. But GTK app developers create angry websites where they try to shame me for it.
- 9 hours
Gnome always felt too basic and minimalist. KDE feels powerful and like I can do anything I want. On KDE I don’t ask myself “can i do this?”, I ask myself “how do I do this?”
