I don't mind a small screen when I'm using Linux, but that's mostly because I spend most of my time in a full screen terminal with Linux. I don't use KDE, but x

I don't mind a small screen when I'm using Linux, but that's mostly because I spend most of my time in a full screen terminal with Linux. I don't use KDE, but xmonad and quickly page between mostly fullscreen applications so I don't need as much screen real estate. When I'm using Windows it's a different story, however and I find the a laptop screen really cramped a lot of the time. That's because I'm inevitably using a lot of GUI applications on Windows and they tend not to be as efficient with screen real estate. I haven't used KDE in a long while, but I know that it places a lot of emphasis on visuals and I suspect that it might be in the same place as Windows.