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Made the switch to KDE (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying "KDE rules, GNOME drools," and "GNOME is better, KDE is for babies." But then I thought, "Why not give KDE a try? The worst that happens is I go back to using GNOME."

Now I get it. The level of customization is incredible, it's way faster than GNOME, and looks beautiful too. At this point, I'm not going back.

I'll happily contribute to the playground fight over desktop environments. KDE rules, GNOME drools.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Welcome to the KDE gang.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I essentially did the same. Used GNOME for almost 10 years, then got my first try of KDE last year and don't plan on going back either. GNOME has some really good points, I wouldn't have used it so long if it didn't, but I can actually use an honest to goodness theme on my desktop and customize without having extensions break on every update. Also, the UI in GTK is just too big and chunky for me, it's like every window is designed for tablets or something. I don't need a title bar that's practically an entire inch tall. If you like GNOME, awesome, I will likely never say GNOME is bad, but I'm a KDE guy now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Both DE have different targets. Gnome takes a bit more time for development. They are both great projects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You're not entirely incorrect. But, KDE is better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm in the opposite situation. I started on KDE but moved to GNOME. I sometimes think about moving back to KDE but I do love the design consistency of GNOME. KDE's endless theming I'd great, but I only ever used the default them because I'd notice little inconsistencies otherwise. I'll probably be on KDE Plasma 6 though, because I tend to jump ship to the shiny new thing that will solve all my problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

KDE has a lot of nice points, I do really like the customization and I think I prefer a lot of the default KDE apps over their GNOME counterparts.

But there's just something about GNOME I find really comfortable to use. I feel like on paper I should like KDE more, but I always end up going back to GNOME and being happier with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

it's way faster than GNOME

Real question, are you on modern hardware? Only time I've noticed anything slow on gnome is on a pretty under powered laptop