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I LOVED KDE 3.5. Holy smokes that was a good experience for me growing up. 4 made me switch, and years later, I tried KDE 5 (last year). And eh, I really tried
by bergheim 4y ago
I LOVED KDE 3.5. Holy smokes that was a good experience for me growing up. 4 made me switch, and years later, I tried KDE 5 (last year). And eh, I really tried for two weeks. That was super annoying, and coming back to i3 just felt like finally getting air.
It was slow, things didn't work, and weird. I totally understand that people would use gnome or kde and call it a day, because it is much easier to get going with. But if you think you should invest time into your interface I would say try other things as well.
Still lots of other good things from the kde project though!
- E39M5S62 4y agoMy experience mirrors yours. I started using KDE back in the 1.x days, and continued up through 3.5. I switched to OS X for a few years, then when I came back to Linux I discovered how wonderful i3 was to use. I've been on Sway now for a few years, but they're functionally equivalent with each other. I try KDE each time a major new release hits, but I just can't give up my Sway workflow. Maybe KDE+ Bismuth would do it.
- woolion 4y agoIt seems that virtual desktops have fallen out of fashion, but I still use them and found that they made tiling entirely unnecessary to me. Each program is on its own desktop (Firefox, thunderbird, ...) and the terminal is everywhere through Guake (or Yakuake). Most 'comparative' views are already managed by specialized programs, but if you really need to 'tile' two windows, using meta+left or meta+right to take half the screen is very fast. Compared to tiling with i3, it's a workflow that requires almost no configuration or learning.
- int_19h 4y agoI don't think it's fair to say that multiple virtual desktops have fallen out of fashion, given that even Windows has added them a few years ago.