Using KDE has made me realize how distracting feature creep can be and has made me infinitely grateful for GNOME’s hostility to shipping unfinished or band-aid fixes (though it does have its drawbacks).
KDE will always have more mass appeal just because of current computing culture (and that’s a good thing, we need someone to take the fall for Windows and Mac refugees) but imo GNOME’s design fundamentals is so rock solid and nice to use.
I originally started using Gnome because it looked different from Windows. When they went to Gnome shell, I loved it even more. Nothing cluttering the desktop - just hit super and start typing or select off the pinned dock list. It worked great because I’m 20 years into Linux and I’m used to starting programs from terminal.
That’s how I feel about KDE.
Using KDE has made me realize how distracting feature creep can be and has made me infinitely grateful for GNOME’s hostility to shipping unfinished or band-aid fixes (though it does have its drawbacks).
KDE will always have more mass appeal just because of current computing culture (and that’s a good thing, we need someone to take the fall for Windows and Mac refugees) but imo GNOME’s design fundamentals is so rock solid and nice to use.
I originally started using Gnome because it looked different from Windows. When they went to Gnome shell, I loved it even more. Nothing cluttering the desktop - just hit super and start typing or select off the pinned dock list. It worked great because I’m 20 years into Linux and I’m used to starting programs from terminal.