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I spent a few minutes setting up a Plasma desktop to resemble what I like about GNOME Shell. A screenshot doesn't do it justice imho. Application Dashboard on Meta, Overview on Meta-W, a Panel and Icons-Only Task Manager set to Autohide at the bottom of each screen, and the Tiling Manager.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As much as I love a good light weight DE like XFCE, KDE plasma has been the best experience on multiple distros including Debian and Arch. It's the closest thing to an accessible windows-like experience with all the customization you wish you had in windows with so many applets and widgets that fill in so many gaps in other DEs.

[–] ikidd 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

KDE isn't much heavier than XFCE. On a modern computer, the difference is indiscernible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I've not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).

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

My computers are pretty new. It's the small things that really eat at you though.

Glad I switched even with the teething pains with Nvidia and wayland. I can always fallback on x11 until the bug is squashed. Always new little problems popping up like Nvidia isn't really tested well on the Wayland side.

[–] Xeroxchasechase 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Those who never tried it (yet)!

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

Isn't the meta gnome users hate us and vice versa? I don't care to think much about it but I feel like I've seen a few memes...

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

I've used KDE for more than a decade
Not just the desktop but the Ksuite of programs
Being able to setup a nice custom tool bar
Auto hide panels of a size that my decaying eyes can read
Doing update without having to troubleshoot afterwards :D