PolarKraken comments on Okay why is your distro the best?

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep I use KDE-flavored Bazzite and actually forgot GNOME was even offered! It works deliciously. Came over from Windows last winter finally and boy, the UI alone is just so much nicer.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I had avoided KDE for years due to some multi-screen resolution issues back in the day.

I'd be running gnome, and install a half dozen plugins to make it look and feel closer to Windows It was just a personal preference. Every other update some plugin I was using would be broken. I'd replace it with another plug-in or uninstall it and wait for a fix. Fight fight fight fight fight fight. Some number of years later I tried KDE again, and I realized that it did exactly what I was trying to do in Gnome but it did it out of the box.

I don't have anything against Gnome. The same way I don't have anything against OS X's "window manager" or even Windows 11's "window manager" they're just not my preference.

Bottom left navigation, thin, stacked app indicators, bottom right tray. Fractional scaling, widgets.

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[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I tried KDE over a decade ago before using Mint for a while. Then I saw someone's laptop running vanilla GNOME and thought it looked nice. But a couple of years ago I realised that GNOME's insistence on hiding settings in "tweaks"/gsettings and generally making it harder to do what I wanted was getting in the way. KDE still has the configurability that I loved when I first started using Linux and GNOME 2, without being an infinite config hellhole like the niche WMs

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