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FUCK
pointless fighting
ALL MY HOMIES
recognize that choice is good and what works for some folk won’t work for others. some people want a highly polished experience right out of the box, even if it can’t be customized a ton, and that’s fine. some devs want a UI toolkit that is solid, polished and guarantees that your app will look the same no matter the user’s environment, and that’s fine.
(i use KDE btw)
Laughs in xfce
Peak
There are dozens of us!
mate is pretty alright too
you wot
Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.
I don’t know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick
“Unpolished” and “like Windows 7” is exactly what I want. I don’t want to be distracted by my DE, it should just work.
Theres enough people who say the get lost in customization instead of use but hey if it works for you, you do you!
Baffling opinion
When is the last time you tried KDE?I think 2023?
Strongly recommend you try Plasma 6.
Even the early release candidates were extremely polished. It’s an entirely different ball game.Sure, I’ll take a look :)
Good that we have choices, no? (I use GNOME btw)
I mean GNOME is…fine. I don’t use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I’d just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.
This is Linux. It’s all about choice. Run what you like. It’s your goddamn computer. And that’s what we all love together.
Gnome uses around 1.6GB on my machine and runs a bit smoother than KDE (although last time I tested was 2½ years ago; so that may no longer be the case. I’m on a 240Hz panel aswell, so my experience may not be applicable to most users).
Glad they optimized it. Last time I tried it the RAM usage was atrocious.
Since 4 months I use Gnome on a 100Hz display at work. At home I am on a 60Hz panel. I cannot justify buying a new display, because the older 60Hz has still better colors and automatic brightness, which isn’t very common, it seems.
But I want higher refresh rates now everywhere; a dilemma!
I’m using a Dell S2522HG, that I calibrated using a colorimeter. Best display I’ve ever had. Not sure if they sell it anymore as 24" panels seem to be dying out.
I really don’t like gnome personally but I’m glad it exists cause other people canlike things I don’t
My problem is people keep infecting the world with software designed with Gnome’s “Mac with Meningitis” style sheet.
Upvoted solely for “Mac with Meningitis”
Fucking love KDE dude. Plasma6 is my jam.
They explicitly banned AI generated code from their extensions if that skews your mind.
How would they know
If they get suspicious on parts of the code, they ask the programmer why that part is the way that it is, and thought process coming up with it.
I can understand this to an extent. Its the same with copying code you didn’t understand from stackoverflow.
the primary driver for the ban is not “hot new thing” but code on which no thought has been put into or copied blindly with zero context around it.
Cinnamon is where it is at. Also, I am happy you found something you like. 👍
I don’t hate GNOME but I dislike GTK a lot
Over the past year I’ve gradually switched from Gnome to Plasma but it’s so fucking clunky I do miss Gnome. I feel like it’s in the right place but it just needs rebuilding from the ground up in the modern world.
I much prefer the looks and feel of GTK4 libadwaita apps over Qt6. I switched to KDE Plasma after using GNOME for awhile because I wanted to see if I noticed any improvement in stability, I want to theme my apps, and I prefer to avoid extensions (it is a security risk). I still very much miss GNOME with the 3-4 extensions that I installed, it just felt so much more polished, consistent, and free of bugs and broken features (looking at you theme search and desktop animations installer).
I’ve been bashing my head against sway for days I just wanna go back to i3 😭
I started on sway and moved to swayfx, out of curiosity what are some of the things i3 provided that sway lacks?
Nothing that it lacks I’ve just never touched Wayland because my hardware hasn’t supported it (I use ewaste machines primarily) and I’m fighting wayland, sway, swaybar and basically the whole thing because I want everything to work the way it did with x11 but it doesn’t and I’m resistant to change.
I’ve just switched to KDE and it’s great, but it has about the same amount of cons as gnome.
I gave Cosmic a go recently and it’s great, but not quite ready yet. I think in a few updates time, I’ll be switching. It’s kind of like a cross-over of gnome and KDE and addresses a lot of the long standing pain points of both.
Gnome is great! My go to… I don’t understand people sayin it uses too much ram. My 2011 macbook (has 4gb ram) running arch with vanilla gnome only uses around 700mb at desktop. Not that bad.
Yea people tend to uncritically repeat things they hear.
Gnome used to much worse when it comes to ram usage, so the inertia of those sentiments still carry.
Kde used to be much worse, using what gnome uses now, but now kde has similar ram usage to xfce last time I tested. CPU wise it’s still much worse though.
Konqi is my favorite dragon
