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Fedora: GNOME or KDE? (lemmy.wtf)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey there, folks! I'm about to do my first Linux install and I'm trying to figure out which DE I wanna use. I'm not concerned about how analogous the DE is to any other OS because I'm willing to learn and develop a new workflow. From a performance and overall compatibility perspective, does either GNOME or KDE outshine over the other for this? This is specifically considering the latest non-beta/stable versions of each. Does the Anaconda installer work in the KDE spin of Fedora, or is the install process different altogether? I know Fedora's default is GNOME, does this make for any less stability with KDE?

Edit: I appreciate all of your comments, thank you for taking the time to write them! Initially I was really interested in GNOME for its minimalist design, but it seems KDE can be altered for a similar form without needing to rely much on third party pieces because of how much is already built into it. Although I'm certain the GNOME DE is a really nice one, I think I'm gonna give it a go with KDE simply because it has three customizability already out-of-the-box and it seems to be slightly lighter weight. Of course, there's no reason to ever settle and it's likely I'll try GNOME at some point instead. Thank you! :)

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[+] iopq -6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In my experience, KDE has too many features that are buggy and don't work. Like hiding the task bar automatically will break the search shortcut because the search is attached to the task bar, so it won't come up unless you mouse over the task bar

Gnome has no features, yet it's buggy and doesn't work. You alt tab out of a Wine game and it will think the alt button is constantly pressed down when you tab back in.

Choose your poison

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In KDE you can literally just start typing anywhere on the desktop (or set it up to activate with a hotkey), and it'll use krunner to search your PC, and do a bunch of other shit if you want. Never had anything about task bars interfere with it whatsoever.

In fact, it has saved my ass a few times when plasma shell would crash and I couldn't access a terminal for whatever reason, I was able to use krunner to restart plasma shell. Very useful.

[–] iopq 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm in my browser, but I'd like to not be in my browser anymore (open something else). The shortcut straight up doesn't work sometimes and that's embarrassing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I even understand what you're talking about and how it relates to my comment . What shortcut? Nothing to do with what I was talking about.

[–] iopq 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you respond to my comment about some other feature? I'm talking about hitting the super key to launch a program

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ok. I guess I just didn't automatically understand what "the shortcut" meant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not to mention the menu button just doesn't work at all sometimes.