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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Gnome is Rethinking Window Management (blogs.gnome.org)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience, KDE works well and gets out of my way, while gnome does stupid shit and is non-configurable. I don;t have multiple monitors with different refresh rates so I can;t comment on that, but I do not run into bugs in KDE often at all!

(I mean I did accidentally lock up my computer by opening several hundred copies of the screenshot app, but that was my fault - I accidentally put a banana on the print screen key!)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Here are a few issues I've had on KDE when I only had one monitor (all on KDE X11, KDE Wayland wouldn't launch on either Nvidia or AMD GPUs):

"start" bar (whatever KDE calls it) gets stuck open, when I try to have it auto-hide; sometimes it stays open even when maximizing videos
"win" key stops working to access the start menu, which is an option on the latest KDE (I used to use an extension in KDE4 when it wasn't an option)
keyboard switcher bugs out and stays open after selecting a layout (I usually use Dvorak, my kids use QWERTY, so I switch often)
sometimes locking my screen boots me out of my session into a new window manager login shell, and I lose my open windows; not sure how this happens, maybe my kids mash buttons, idk, but it happens 1-2x/month

I'm sure there are more.

With GNOME Wayland, my issues. are essentially limited to a weird rendering issue that resulted in my screen getting "cut" (as in, right half of my screen rendered down a pixel or two). That's it. Everything else works smoothly, and I haven't had any issues in the past 2-3 weeks since installing it.

None of the KDE issues were deal-breakers, they were just kind of annoying and made the desktop feel worse. I don't need really any features from my DE, I just need to launch apps full-screen and switch between them. That's it, and KDE failed at that without any extra extensions installed (just whatever ships with openSUSE).

So that's why I use GNOME. I think KDE is fine, but I honestly don't care what my DE does, provided it can launch and switch between applications. Once it's set up and doesn't look horrible, I generally don't touch any of the configuration options. I used to care about such things, but after 15-ish years with Linux, I guess the novelty has worn off.