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[–] 170 points 2 years ago (29 children)

GNOME is more keyboard-focused than KDE. It just also happens to have much better touch support.

Get this meme to /linuxsucks where it belongs.

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  • [–] 109 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    In my experience, KDE Plasma is surprisingly actually better than Gnome for tablet use. You would think that Gnome's more minimal and chunky UI would make it a better fit, but Plasma just has a lot more little usability QOL features.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    How is KDE less keyboard-focused? I spent like ten minutes setting up kwin shortcuts and now have the same level of keyboard-only interaction as with any WM.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Well, I guess because you don't need to do the ten minutes of setup.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Both KDE and Gnome have a comparable set of default keyboard shortcuts.

    The difference is if you are in KDE, you have easier ability to adjust to what you want with a lot more available shortcut actions, while in Gnome you generally are expected to live with the choices of the devs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Oh, I get it! I just have to reprogram my brain to the GNOME way instead of the much more efficient way that I actually want!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (9 children)

    Use a tiling wm. GNOME is for people who want a sane, human-friendly default.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (8 children)

    iOS users think the same way born from ignorance. But hey, if you don't mind inefficient workflows and an extreme lack of customization to fix that, then GNOME works.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (7 children)

    I don't find it very inefficient. There's also plenty of customization. This is a pretty specious comparison; on iOS you literally pay money a la carte for minor customization options. On GNOME, you might have to turn to less-supported third party extensions, or God forbid do some very minor config file or command line work. Far less than you'd need to do to do something similar in a tiling wm, of course... And most things that end users who just want to actually use their computer might care about are supported already. The system tray is the single feature I think is glaringly missing from GNOME currently, hopefully they'll get that officially supported soon.

    Kind of weird to get so bent out of shape about some people choosing to use a certain interface.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Lmao, you even admit hoe dumb it is with the system tray. And you're wrong, I can have XFCE exactly hoe I want it in a matter of 15 minutes, using only the settings apps, and it will absolutely dog walk the workflows of GNOME.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Lmao I was not expecting XFCE. You're funny.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    It has the most sane defaults out of the box, and can literally run ciricles around GNOME as far as setting keyboard shortcuts. It's crazy you're so in love with the most neutered, asinine, uncustomizable DE in Linux and even admit how dogshit it is so why are we still discussing. You literally admitted it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hahahahahaha you are so insanely triggered over nothing this is great

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    GNOME doesn't have nearly enough keyboard shortcuts for me as a keyboard focused user. IMHO, keyboard use is all about customizability, which GNOME is not.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Slightly off-topic, but this annoyed me during the Win 8.1/10 start screen era as well. Just because an interface is touch-friendlier doesn't mean it can't also be an improvement for keyboard/mouse users as well.

    Then they ditched all that and made it a worse experience for everyone in Win 11, so un turn I ditched their mess and fully switched over.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Lmao that community is hilarious - it's all the most blatantly biased low-brow cheap shots about Linux I've ever seen and is just being spammed by 1-2 haters all the time 🀣

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