I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago....
this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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I used to use Gnome all the time but I have to install a bunch of extensions for it to be usable. This one addon, I think it was called window list, is the most important and invaluable one of them all. There is no way I can use Gnome without it and I don't understand how other people have the patience to deal with not having that. The number of times I updated Gnome and found out window list was so out of date the only way I could get it working was if I download the source code and fix the issue myself, is too damn high. That addon should be part of Gnome by default.
Now I use cinnamon or kde depending on which one works better in that respective distro's repository. Some installations of your favorite desktop environment come with better configs than others. For example last time I tried KDE on Ubuntu, it was a broken buggy annoying mess to the point it was was less functional than Windows 11's ui. On Arch, KDE is the epitome optimization and polish. On Arch, cinnamon is respectably borked out of the box. Cinnamon on Ubuntu usually only comes with a few bugs however I rarely end up finding a way to fix said bugs.
LXDE is the same across distros usually but I only use it if running Linux on an absolute potato. That lack of a start menu search is awful, I don't miss those pre-search bar era uis. I need a search bar dammit.
Cannot relate. At all.
Last friday I re-installed Arch with KDE this time instead of GNOME for a change, and in these two and a half days I've already encountered more bugs and crashes than I did the entire time I was on GNOME. Kinda regretting the decision already. All that with stock applets and widgets and shit that come bundled with the DE. I don't want to imagine what things would be like if I started to mess around with third party stuff.
Idk man, EndeavourOS on KDE has been amazing to me, even on Wayland. Even the plasma 5 to 6 upgrade has been ridiculously smooth. I have a feeling arch may not be the most unified distro to judge a DE on... Hope stuff stabilizes for you a bit. That's no fun. :(
If anything it's getting worse. Today I (unsuccessfully) spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the bottom panel's state won't persist between reboots. I don't even know what state it's reverting to. I never pinned Google chrome to that panel yet it appears there on every reboot while all my pins are gone. Some time was also wasted on rebuilding another panel that somehow broke and piled all of its widgets on top of each other and made them unclikable. There's also something seriously wrong with either the window manager or the compositor or both because on two occasions it sorta fused two windows together, producing a garbled mess that forced me to exit both applications and restart them.
I think I'll call this one a failure and go back to gnome as soon as I can. This really is not a good experience. Maybe in another two years I'll try KDE again. Last time I tried KDE it was much worse, so they're clearly getting better.
What in the world... I use KDE everywhere, we even use it many workstations at work and I've seen no such thing it's been smooth sailing. I hope whatever's causing this is nothing too serious because that's NOT normal... :(
I guess it's just a roll of the dice on how borked the config files in the repository package were that month.