I spent a few minutes setting up a Plasma desktop to resemble what I like about GNOME Shell. A screenshot doesn’t do it justice imho. Application Dashboard on Meta, Overview on Meta-W, a Panel and Icons-Only Task Manager set to Autohide at the bottom of each screen, and the Tiling Manager.
who doesn’t?
Those who never tried it (yet)!
Isn’t the meta gnome users hate us and vice versa? I don’t care to think much about it but I feel like I’ve seen a few memes…
Me too
As much as I love a good light weight DE like XFCE, KDE plasma has been the best experience on multiple distros including Debian and Arch. It’s the closest thing to an accessible windows-like experience with all the customization you wish you had in windows with so many applets and widgets that fill in so many gaps in other DEs.
KDE isn’t much heavier than XFCE. On a modern computer, the difference is indiscernible.
No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I’ve not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).
