cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/linux/p/1352148/a-question-for-gnome-kde-users
For people who already tried both, what’s the reason you’re sticking with GNOME or KDE as your desktop environment?
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/linux/p/1352148/a-question-for-gnome-kde-users
For people who already tried both, what’s the reason you’re sticking with GNOME or KDE as your desktop environment?
Knew about Linux back in 2006 with Ubuntu 5.10, it had Gnome 2 which at the moment was great.
But for some reason its devs decided they knew much more than their users about how to use a DE so they imposed a lot of groundbreaking changes so for a time (some months) I used Xfce and then moved to KDE like in 2009 or so (I think it was late 2008). At the time there was the KDE4 shitstorm but imho it was nothing compared to what Gnome 3 did (i.e. Plasma was way more customizable than now, there was stuff that never came back like window tabs and one-wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop things…).
All in all nowadays KDE is for me much more stable and suited to my day-to-day needs than Gnome 2, not to even speak about what Gnome 3 turned out to be.
However I reckon today’s Gnome has evolved a lot since its 3.x days and I suppose it should be amazing for the people who happen to like its way to do things, it just happens it’s not for me.