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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Made the switch to KDE (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying "KDE rules, GNOME drools," and "GNOME is better, KDE is for babies." But then I thought, "Why not give KDE a try? The worst that happens is I go back to using GNOME."

Now I get it. The level of customization is incredible, it's way faster than GNOME, and looks beautiful too. At this point, I'm not going back.

I'll happily contribute to the playground fight over desktop environments. KDE rules, GNOME drools.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can respect GNOME, it's just not for me. There are a lot of other DE's I really don't get, for example: Xfce, Mate, Budgie, LXQt, any pure WM desktop in existence, the list goes on... But if people still develop them, I guess there is a market.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, for example, Xfce is very lightweight, so it works better for old hardware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Xfce works better everywhere and with everything, however it falls to the same pitfall that KDE has, eventually you'll require some libadwaita application, flatpak and whatnot and then you'll end up with a Frankenstein system half Xfce half GNOME components and themes that don't apply to all apps equally. :(