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A question for GNOME/KDE users (piefed.world)

submitted 5 days ago by sando_en_shorts@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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For people who already tried both, what's the reason you're sticking with GNOME or KDE as your desktop environment?

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[–] 0xKesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Over the years, I don't think there's many DE's or WM's that I haven't tried to live with on a daily driver, such as KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, Qtile, XMonad, I3, AwesomeWM, etc etc. What I found over the years was how much I appreciated a clean, simplistic UI for an operating system.

After spending multiple years on 'window manager only' setups (got fed up with updating configs on major updates, and got fed up with the amount of config I had to do), I returned back to KDE mainly for the intense amount of OOTB customisation. However, what I realised after a while was that I was just setting up KDE to look and behave like Gnome.

So 2 years after last using KDE, I'm now just using Gnome all the time. I like the workflow, on laptop personally I think the gesture navigation is better than any other DE, and I love the simplistic design. Plus extensions get me what isn't included OOTB.

Downside to Gnome is when major updates occur and extensions break as a result, other than that I can't think of much bad about Gnome

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

my favorite setup used to be i3+plasma. basically you could replace kwin with i3 for window management but everything else was standard kde. was one of the easiest setups and configurations I've used with sane defaults. Now I'm curious if it still works with everything moving to Wayland.