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Honestly, I find that as long as the DE keeps the "desktop" metaphor, it's not too difficult to jump ship. Windows 7 was the last version of Windows I used in a
by AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
Honestly, I find that as long as the DE keeps the "desktop" metaphor, it's not too difficult to jump ship. Windows 7 was the last version of Windows I used in anger, and I had no trouble switching to Cinnamon DE. Mate would've worked just fine, too. It's GNOME 3 and its ilk that I find frustrating, and keep having to apply tweaks to make it usable for me.
The couple of times I tried Plasma, I loved all the customisability of it; it's awesome that I can apply one theme and now it feels like Windows 7, or a different theme and now it's Unity. But the "default" feel of Plasma just feels overwhelming, and even though I could drill down into fifty levels of settings to get what I want, it still turned me off because what I really wanted was just better defaults...
- IAmLiterallyAB 3y agoI know there's been improvements to the defaults in Plasma 6 which is set to release in February. Stuff like double click instead of single click for opening folders. I plan to try it once it releases.
- _benj 3y agoI hear you there. After getting frustrated enough with gnome 3 to jump to plasma I quickly came to discover that tweaking whatever you want on the desktop is way easier than what I thought. Literally just right click on the thing and disable stuff away! The settings for plasma are certainly overwhelming, but if there are too many tools on the file browser, right clink on the icons and hide what you don’t want. Taskbar too crowded? Right click it and get rid of stuff. Konsole is showing the menu bar and wrong fonts? Right click the thing and fix it!
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah this is what I love about KDE. User choice is a design ideal to it's developers rather than a dirty smell like it is to Gnome devs.