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    The biggest thing for me with these two which makes KDE the better DE is that with Gnome I have to change the way I work, with KDE I change it to the way I work. That’s what it all boils down to for me.

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      1 year ago

      You just described my exact situation. I went back to plasma after using GNOME for 3 weeks.

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      The way you work might not be the best way to work. That’s kind of the realization I had to have to use GNOME - now using anything else feels like a chore.

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        Now if we could just find The Best Way To Work Bible (King James Version of course) we could then be told what the best way to work is.

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        The way you work is largely a personal choice defined by personal preference. You may have found a better way to work, but I’m quite satisfied with the way I work.

        :)

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          Just wanted to agree and add that it’s not my DE’s job to tell me the best way to work. That’s why I use KDE even though I like some things about the GNOME environment. Let me get there in my own time, let me set the things up how I want. My work isn’t your work, and your workflow shouldn’t be forced onto mine.

          GNOME devs care about their vision, KDE devs care about their users. This has been plain since the early days of GNOME 3.

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            This is so true, even if some people don’t want to recognize it. GNOME and their whole design walled garden, also those “dOnT tHemE oUr aPps” fellas. Jesus, isn’t that the point of linux? Do whatever the f I want with my OS?

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    Thats not Gnome. You need to remove the glasses. Hair is not an option. Two eyes, mouth, nose. That’s all you get. And you are not allowed to focus on all three, only one at a time can be shown.

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      I don’t know, with Gnome extensions you menage to change anything you’d want to and even more.

      Maybe not anything, but the options are there

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      lmao my KDE is the most rainbow shit evee with candy icons and purple color

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    Haha, I just tried kde plasma yesterday and went back to dark gloomy serious gnome.

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      Yeah I’ve been using Gnome for a few years and decided to try xfce and kde again, kde kept crashing then reloading and wouldnt save where I put my widgets. And xfce was good but I couldn’t get Awesome WM to work and I missed wayland. So back to Gnome I guess

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        That’s weird, for me KDE is rock solid, even with Wayland. GNOME was a resource hog, crashed a couple of times (Debian 12).

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    I migrated from Kubuntu after 4 years to Debian 12 last month. Default GNOME DE. Yesterday I uninstalled that shit and installed Plasma. GNOME is pretty and shit, but just wasn’t for me.

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      Every time I try GNOME I get very confused about what they’re training to achieve. I don’t like a lot of basic default settings, a story in itself. But the worst part is that they can only be changed via advanced tooling not installed by default (extensions, GNOME tweak). How is that user friendly?

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        Completely agree, I understad the power of gnome extensions and why some people love them, but they shouldn’t be needed for basic things like showing minimize buttons, tray icons, etc. KDE also has widgets, but those add extra functionality or alternatives to what plasma already has.

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      I used to use GNOME and modded it heavily to my liking. Because the default gnome feels like it’s missing stuff. Now it kinda makes sense why I’m okay with using MacOS and modding it’s missing features.

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        I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled “smart phone” devices.

        I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.

        It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn’t really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.

        I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn’t have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.

        I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.

        Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer

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          you gotta be atleast twice my age, that entire string of sentences is absurd to me. No GPU? Original I am legend in 144p; absolute hell, why even live. RAM measured in mb?!?!? Wild

          Sounds impressive though atleast

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        GUI is pretty unappealing once you learn CUI. Still need GUI for web browsing, though.

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            As opposed to CLI, which is specifically command line, yes. The terminal consumes you, relieving you of both the will and necessity that would drive you to use anything else. All of your goals can be accomplished with one weapon: a clicky keyboard.

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        When I first started out with Linux, I went full ricemode with Arch. For a while I tried running without X, using tmux heavily and browsing with lynx, only starting a specific X server for games.

        You can definitely do it, but especially web browsing is not really feasible. There are tons of curses-like applications like mutt and irssi that work really well, but alas, I ended up going back to i3.

        Still heavily riced, though, using Vim hotkeys wherever possible. For browsing, qutebrowser is fucking sweet!

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        My girl is both, to me haha.

        Her family don’t get why I say that. They joke on her and say, “fun? Never heard of it. Now get back to work!”

        She’s the most fun person I know though. I absolutely love her company.

        They cannot believe that I would even consider calling her “fun”.