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I am the only one to think that these days, GNOME and KDE are more usable than anything made by Microsoft or Apple? I think part of the reason is that devs work
by drnick1 1y ago
I am the only one to think that these days, GNOME and KDE are more usable than anything made by Microsoft or Apple? I think part of the reason is that devs working on these projects don't have an incentive to make arbitrary changes like people who need to justify their paychecks.
- unboxingelf 1y agoYou’re not the only one.
- reddalo 1y agoI agree, except for the GNOME part. I think GNOME 2 was the last usable version, everything went downhill since GNOME 3. KDE or Cinnamon (Linux Mint) are good though.
- Rochus 1y agoYou can still use Gnome 2 with e.g. the Mate desktop. I use it every day and it works good enough (though it has some bugs in the file manager).
- BatteryMountain 1y agoBeen using Fedora + KDE since ~March on my main dev machine (hp laptop), basically without any issues and it hasn't broken itself yet. Works amazing. KDE has cured my last bit of distrohopping I had left and I moved on from Gnome too. Things that irritate me on my last macos machine is literally 3 config toggles away in KDE. In the coming month will install Fedora+KDE on 5 more machines for family members due to Windows 10 hitting end of life.
- Rochus 1y agoEven Mate is more usable, and to do decent work on a Mac I need a Lenovo Thinkpad external keyboard, which is much better than anything Apple has to offer and it even has a trackpoint and two mouse buttons.
- hoherd 1y agoWith KDE Plasma being so great, and Tahoe desktop UI being so awful, I am being nudged more and more towards using linux as my desktop instead of just using it headless.