• Leon@pawb.social
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    6 hours ago

    I wouldn’t blame GNOME for being the default environment. They’re the default because GNOME is stable, and their apps have a coherent design language. It’s a very approachable platform. Their app names are boring, but they’re self-explanatory.

    • Calendar
    • Calculator
    • Files
    • Image Viewer
    • Web

    KDE on the other hand is still decently unstable. Last time I had KDE crash on me when doing nothing but opening the panel edit view was literally last week. The application UX is a bit all over the place, and a lot of them feel like they were “made by developers.” The naming scheme is the olden cutesy KDE/Linux naming scheme, which is charming but feels pretty alien when you’re new to it.

    • Merkuro
    • KCalc
    • Dolphin
    • Gwenview
    • Konqueror
    • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      It crashed when you were editing a panel? I literally don’t remember the last time KDE crashed on me, and I’m even on an NVIDIA GPU.

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        That has literally always been the default KDE experience for me. I find KDE to be a constantly buggy unstable mess. I’m glad it seems to work for everyone else, but it clearly doesn’t like me and the feeling is mutual now.