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KDE is more powerful and configurable in every way, unlike of forcing the user into a particular paradigm like GNOME does. Also the software suite is stellar.

2143 4y ago
> more powerful "More powerful"? What does that mean, in the context of DE?
- nani8ot 4y ago
  "More powerful" in the context of features. E.g. Kate (text editor) has many advanced features not available in Gnome Text Editor. For me the reduced feature-set of Gnome apps is what I want because I don't usually need them. I like the (imo) clean and easy UX of Gnome apps.
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- indymike 4y ago
  I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty nice... Powerful is probably not the right word. KDE has a lot more features, and a lot more of those features are user configurable. Gnome has taken the path of a well executed, smaller feature set with fewer places the user can customize. KDE has taken the path of more features, but at the cost of more code, and more things that could have bugs. Personally, I love customizing everything, so I prefer KDE. But both Gnome and KDE are fantastic and give OSX a run for its money on usability, and both are superior to Windows 11 (which by the way is the best Windows UI since about XP).
greyw 4y ago
It's also full of bugs. Kwin_x11 regularily crashed on me requiring a manual restart of it. I'd rather have something that works than a lot of configuration options that don't work. I'm using gnome nowadays (without any extensions)
SkyMarshal 4y ago
I tried KDE recently b/c that new Nordic theme is beautiful. But setting it up was a major pain, and there’s apparently dconf-like utility that can export the settings into a save file. Went back to gnome afterwards.
- SkyMarshal 4y ago
  I meant “… apparently no dconf-like utility…”
- seba_dos1 4y ago
  You don't need to export your settings because they're already files in ~/.config.
  - SkyMarshal 4y ago
    Some are, not all, and they're spread out across multiple config files. dconf by comparison puts them all into a single file, and provides import/export functionality that updates the UI without a restart.

2143 4y ago

> more powerful "More powerful"? What does that mean, in the context of DE?

nani8ot 4y ago
"More powerful" in the context of features. E.g. Kate (text editor) has many advanced features not available in Gnome Text Editor. For me the reduced feature-set of Gnome apps is what I want because I don't usually need them. I like the (imo) clean and easy UX of Gnome apps.
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indymike 4y ago
I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty nice... Powerful is probably not the right word. KDE has a lot more features, and a lot more of those features are user configurable. Gnome has taken the path of a well executed, smaller feature set with fewer places the user can customize. KDE has taken the path of more features, but at the cost of more code, and more things that could have bugs. Personally, I love customizing everything, so I prefer KDE. But both Gnome and KDE are fantastic and give OSX a run for its money on usability, and both are superior to Windows 11 (which by the way is the best Windows UI since about XP).

greyw 4y ago

It's also full of bugs. Kwin_x11 regularily crashed on me requiring a manual restart of it. I'd rather have something that works than a lot of configuration options that don't work. I'm using gnome nowadays (without any extensions)

SkyMarshal 4y ago

I tried KDE recently b/c that new Nordic theme is beautiful. But setting it up was a major pain, and there’s apparently dconf-like utility that can export the settings into a save file. Went back to gnome afterwards.

SkyMarshal 4y ago
I meant “… apparently no dconf-like utility…”
seba_dos1 4y ago
You don't need to export your settings because they're already files in ~/.config.
- SkyMarshal 4y ago
  Some are, not all, and they're spread out across multiple config files. dconf by comparison puts them all into a single file, and provides import/export functionality that updates the UI without a restart.