I’m on gnome on my daily desktop, and I hate it ! Thinking to switch to KDE but when I read that it took them 10 years to implement a good fuse “alternative” to make samba share work properly… I’m really hesitant to switch…
Gnome is great, but I hate the MacOS feeling… Everything seems soo… Proprietary :/ Maybe something more lightweight like XFCE will fit into my workflow.
Switched to Linux a year ago. Haven’t looked back since. I didn’t even know Windows was getting those creepy ass advertisements all over the operating system if it weren’t for the news here. Now I don’t want to go back more.
Decided to throw OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on an old laptop the other day. Haven’t fooled with it enough to run up against any limitations yet, but I gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised so far.
Tumbleweed is great. I just started using it after getting bored of PopOS (and it breaking on me after system freeze during updates). Really like the automatic snapper backup feature.
The whole thing if it being semi-bleeding edge is sensible, at least there is some automatic testing before updates are released.
The difference is this can be customized exactly as they want. It may be similar, but the little differences are stuff that you can’t change in Windows.
I searched trans in KDE widget store (should show transparent panel), after installed add it to the panel and click on it while in editor mode (it’s sometimes reset to default panel after restart)
The amount of times I’ve tabbed in and out of WoW in front of my friends just to flex that not only it doesn’t crash, but it’s fancy too. Or just give the game a little shake and wobble to mess around while it’s loading.
🤔 I’m actually surprised it’s THIS customizable. We’re talking functionally right? Not just style. Idk I guess I’m not a huge fan of the “start menu/task bar” and having a desktop, maybe I’m the weird one though. I ran vanilla gnome and then sway so desktops and taskbars and all of that aren’t really my thing.
Definitely. You don’t need to have a task bar or start menu in KDE, it’s just the default. I usually have on panel on the left or right with my workspaces and system tray. I use the overview to manage windows instead of a taskbar, like gnome. I put krunner, the built in app runner on super
Huh, tbh I’ve never given KDE a real try. I used it way back in the day on OpenSUSE because I wanted a windows experience but that was when I was still playing around with Linux. I’ve never used it full time. My first full time DE was cinnamon and eventually I decided I wanted something radically different and so went to gnome 3 and never really considered KDE as radically different from anything I had used before.
thanks for your work! I use it every day. And btw, I thought that moving from windows to plasma because the UI was boring was weird too(at least aesthetically).
LOL, yeah, honestly with how hard I got ratioed it’s like I offended someone XD. I just found it an odd choice to complain about windows aesthetics and then be like “here’s my fancier windows” but to each their own. Anyway, glad you like the project and find it useful.
The windows UI being boring doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by a lack of customizability. The windows UI is just a boring UI design even if you make it more customizable. Makes it better, but doesn’t fix the problem IMO.
isnt that the point of using a 3rd party option. while windows isnt as customizable as Linux, i fond it odd that people are trying to customize the native windows button instead of using a 3rd party one and customizing that, in which you would have much more control of the function.
That’s fair, also I’m not saying KDE doesn’t have a use case, for example people who are tired of windows for one reason or another but like the windows UI. Cinnamon has a similar use case which is one of many reasons I think mint is a great starter distro. I just found it odd that somebody who didn’t like the windows UI went to that desktop over the other less Windows like desktops. Comment got ratioed so hard people seem to think I’m hating on the guy or his rice but I just find it odd to not like the windows UI and then go to one of the most Windows like desktops.
That’s just personal preference tho. I don’t personally like it either but that’s part of the reason I use GNOME, I think that looks absolutely great. Great thing about Linux is that you don’t have to use KDE Plasma or GNOME or whatever other DE, you can choose what you like the most.
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