Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn’t. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn’t quite open enough.
CDE (common desktop environment) was proprietary afaik. Crazy times
It was. I think I used CDE very briefly on some Sun workstations back around the kde 1.x times. But lowly undergrads mostly got ttys and not X terminals.
I remember this and hate that I do.
It’s been made by someone born after both Kde and Gnome is my take.
Let the chant begin
KDE! KDE! KDE! Death to foot fetish Death to mice Death to everybody who dont rice
KDE! KDE! KDE!
Upvoted for the limerick.
You have been banned by Red Hat’s management
Isn’t fedora switching to KDE default?
That would be a major miracle. Like, Jesus walking on water level.
Hey man… Don’t break the dreams of a little child
No, there’s a proposal, but hasn’t been accepted afaik
How do I support it?
KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.
Cinnamon
Stay in the kitchen where you belong, trash.
/s
i love cinnamon.
As a partaker of anime I know that being older isn’t usually an advantage.
Also KDE wins. Fight me.
It is if it’s me
Hello me.
i3, not for any smart reason, just bc it was the first tiling wm that i used, and i dont have a reason to switch
And for the Waylanders like me, we have sway.
Or Hyprland :>
KDE was first.
FVWM.
I feel like the “desktop environment” is a Faustian bargain. You get a plateload of software that looks consistent, but none of it is best of breed.
I can recall being a bit wowed by the original KDE 1.0 betas on my old 486, when Konqueror was the file manager as much as the browser, but in the end it felt like thry were trying to recreate the experience you got wth the pack-in software of Windows 95.
And **** GNOME for really pushing the client-side decorations model. I configured my window manager to put the title bar and close button where I want it, thank you.
Gnome. I’m a Mac refugee from a decade ago. I’ve been using gnome with dash2dock and dash2panel together to make a sudo Mac os.
Do you mean pseudo?
Lol yeah I’m dumb and tired
“sudo MacOS” sounds like a legit way to describe “gnome+ubuntu”
I ended a 30-years Windows streak BECAUSE of KDE Plasma 6 (among other reasons)
Hyprland for now, but I’ll probably switch to COSMIC, once it’s available on NixOS
i3wm + xde.
sway is the way.
This is the Sway
Wrong. I don’t like themes. I turn on dark mode, move the default panel up top and setup papirus icons and breeze white cursor theme. This is about as basic as it gets.
KDE. I don’t have to change anything (other than taskbars on all monitors rather than just the main one) for an experience I like. Everything just works. Wayland support is best in class.
I don’t like gnome’s workflow and it takes COSMIC level customization for me to like it. And technical issues are common for me. Namely windows constantly spawning off screen and delayed reactions.
XFCE’s default layout is absolutely horrible and there’s no Wayland support. Mint XFCE’s implementation is good though.
Cinnamon, in my experience, is buggy and has similar technical problems to gnome.
I’ve used i3wm and it’s okay, but I would never use it on my main desktop. Takes a certain kind of workflow.
I’ve messed with AwesomeWM and can say it’s very ok.
LXDE/LXQT are obsolete. Not old school, obsolete. And in the case of QT, there’s absolutely no reason to use it when XFCE has the same ram usage anyway.
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I haven’t used any other desktops other than these.
