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I've been using Gnome for years, but, honestly, it just isn't good: seems like it's optimized for very basic use. Something as simple as adding launcher to a pa

I've been using Gnome for years, but, honestly, it just isn't good: seems like it's optimized for very basic use. Something as simple as adding launcher to a panel now requires an extension. Also Wayland has some problem on my system (Thinkpad / Intel Xe) where it randomly just goes slow, this makes it an easy choice to try things other than Gnome.

BoredPositron 11mo ago
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- nkohari 11mo ago
  Comments like these are less than worthless. If you're going to contribute, say something meaningful.
  - BoredPositron 11mo ago
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- ga_to 11mo ago
  Gonna tell him what?
ginalloa 11mo ago
As discussed earlier on HN, KDE these days has been the most usable desktop for many users. It is mostly stable, feature rich and can be customized easily.
- nmstoker 11mo ago
  Yes, fuly agree. And enough time has passed with it being robust and performant that the old bores who used to go on about KDE performance have finally given up bleeting on about that. I wouldn't bash GNOME as clearly plenty of work goes into it and having two decent DE is good for the ecosystem, but for me GNOME never struck a chord compared to the elegance of KDE - it just feels like the Duplo version compared to KDE
  - pjjpo 11mo ago
    This was good to read, thanks. Last experience with KDE is probably almost 30 years ago when it was so sluggish I quickly gave up on it. With Gnome being _the default_ in some sense given Ubuntu's control of desktop Linux, it never even came to mind to give kubuntu a try, I think I will.
- xedrac 11mo ago
  I tried KDE on several different occasions this year, and each time the bottom panel froze on me when trying to configure it, usually within the first minute or two. It felt a bit like I was still using KDE4 when it was first released.
  - ahartmetz 11mo ago
    I think I've had some panel hangs up until a couple of months ago. It was usually some tray plugin (happened after particular changes in the network or sound system configuration) or multi-screen configuration change related. In any case, the workaround for a hanging or spazzed out desktop shell is: open krunner (it's a different process, should still work) and run plasmashell --replace.
- killerstorm 11mo ago
  Alright, I tried KDE again - and it's really good. Seems like Chrome-in-Wayland problem I had before is resolved now. And otherwise KDE accumulated all the goodies one should expect from DE over years.
1718627440 11mo ago
Mate (aka Gnome 2) is also fine.

BoredPositron 11mo ago

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nkohari 11mo ago
Comments like these are less than worthless. If you're going to contribute, say something meaningful.
- BoredPositron 11mo ago
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ga_to 11mo ago
Gonna tell him what?

ginalloa 11mo ago

As discussed earlier on HN, KDE these days has been the most usable desktop for many users. It is mostly stable, feature rich and can be customized easily.

nmstoker 11mo ago
Yes, fuly agree. And enough time has passed with it being robust and performant that the old bores who used to go on about KDE performance have finally given up bleeting on about that. I wouldn't bash GNOME as clearly plenty of work goes into it and having two decent DE is good for the ecosystem, but for me GNOME never struck a chord compared to the elegance of KDE - it just feels like the Duplo version compared to KDE
- pjjpo 11mo ago
  This was good to read, thanks. Last experience with KDE is probably almost 30 years ago when it was so sluggish I quickly gave up on it. With Gnome being _the default_ in some sense given Ubuntu's control of desktop Linux, it never even came to mind to give kubuntu a try, I think I will.
xedrac 11mo ago
I tried KDE on several different occasions this year, and each time the bottom panel froze on me when trying to configure it, usually within the first minute or two. It felt a bit like I was still using KDE4 when it was first released.
- ahartmetz 11mo ago
  I think I've had some panel hangs up until a couple of months ago. It was usually some tray plugin (happened after particular changes in the network or sound system configuration) or multi-screen configuration change related. In any case, the workaround for a hanging or spazzed out desktop shell is: open krunner (it's a different process, should still work) and run plasmashell --replace.
killerstorm 11mo ago
Alright, I tried KDE again - and it's really good. Seems like Chrome-in-Wayland problem I had before is resolved now. And otherwise KDE accumulated all the goodies one should expect from DE over years.

1718627440 11mo ago

Mate (aka Gnome 2) is also fine.