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I prefer the default gnome experience to the default kde experience.
I also prefer the styling of most gnome apps, and actively dislike kde apps styling.
Gnome is less customizable, but customizable enough for what I want.
I'm also biased, because I was using Ubuntu since it came out, up until a few years ago π€·ββοΈ
I myself identify as an equalist . I hate all of them DE equally. Standalone WM is superior (for me).
I use GNOME on my laptop because it's really nice for touch devices. It has a learning curve, I have to add extensions to do things I expect an OS to do and I'm still not sure what I'm doing, but it's nice.
I like gnome and it's philosophy π¬
There's plenty of "customizability" friendly options out there. I like how gnome isn't afraid to break things to improve
Gnome haven't "improved" anything since gnome 2, gnome 3 and above, only downhill from there.
Kde is so ugly and buggy, requiring tons of setup n knowhow to fix. GNOME feels limiting and oversimplified, but honestly 9 out of 10 times its fine.... even if its setting menu infuriates on the regular.
Im old and i dont having 100 hrs to rice shit anymore
KDE is way less buggy than it used to be. I still prefer gnome but I don't mind KDE from s stability perspective.
The only bug I ever see is Dolphin having a delayed startuo, and I have a bunch of file shares mounted which NFS might be causing delays. KDE is awesome, and it's Tumbleweed so not even stable KDE.
That being said I put my family on Cinnamon.
I haven't run into any bugs but also I'm not the most intensive user so maybe I just don't run into them.
I tried gnome once at the start of my Linux adventures and I couldn't figure out how to do most stuff as it seems really counter intuitive to me. I tried extensions to fix it and they just didn't work or broke and trying to install the extensions was a problem for me too. Idk it's just seems broken to me in a lot of ways
Then I tried another distro with basic life and it was easy and I didnt need to install anything extra because it was already all there.
Also why the fuck does gnome and Ubuntu have a app drawer take up the whole fucking screen. I'm on a computer not a tablet or phone. I just need a start menu like kde has. Its simple small and easily accessible when other apps are open
KDE: "I just blue myself"
XFCE erryday.
When I first started using Linux over 20 years ago, I did try Gnome. Then went back to KDE immediately.
From what I have read in those 20+ years, the design philosophy hasn't changed.
I think the key is to just not hate on someone else for having a preference for one you don't care for. (And not being an overzealous missionary for your own preference.) It's fun seeing the variety and people geeking out about the little intricacies they love about their favorites
That's just a good approach to life in general.
All the JavaScript in gnome make it super icky to me as an ex-webdev, and unusable on hardware that is otherwise perfectly fine with other DEs. From high resource usage, memory leaks, and breaking extensions, I have a hard time believing that their userbase is anyone other than mobile native younger folk who are good at consuming via the iPad launcher paradigm. Just my humble opinion, nothing more.
I don't love GNOME, but if you use it....whatever. Linux is all about choice and lack of lock-in.
If you want to compile CDE from the 1990s and use it as your DE.....you do you honey boo boo.
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JFC apparently CDE is still around and had a stable release 2 months ago. Holy fucking case-in-point right there.
on my normal desktop I use the flavor of the day DE, gnome is only used on my 40 inch touchscreen, because its the only one I could imagine being good on a touchscreen