After 2y on Linux I can say with full confidence that switching from GNOME to KDE (for me) is a bigger barrier than switching from Windows to Linux ever was.
I’ve tried a lot to like KDE but I just can’t. I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact. I’m yet to try Hyprland though.
Considering the fact that I’m itching to get Steam Frame and VR on GNOME will likely be broken indefinitely, idk what to do.
GNOME and KDE have large philosophical differences and those show when you use them. I really like KDE and the way I can turn it into a tiling window manager.
Comparing a full DE to a WM is a massive difference. DEs have batteries included, you don’t need to worry about which notification daemon to use, which tool can do power management or what renders your task bar. You just get every tool and it works.
I used to use i3, then migrated to sway, but the finding of tools that do X or Y got annoying after a while. In KDE everything just works together with no or minimal configuration and I get more features more easily.
What’s your preferred way to turn KDE into a tiling WM? I tried something in the past, but every time I tried to resize a window smaller than 25% of the screen, it would pop it out into floating mode.
I am still using sway because I need to know that there are no hiding windows anywhere. That shit drives me berserk.
Kröhnkite works well. I’m using it with KDE 6 on plasma no issues.
I just tested a bunch of windows and none of them went floating, not sure about manual resizing though.
Cool. I’ll give it a go. I do often manually resize windows though, so maybe that’s where I went wrong. Thanks for the tip
khronkite is a great drop in kwin script that works kde into a tiler