• Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    None of this would be bad if the devs also didn’t think that they should be the default Linux desktop. It’s one thing having a constrictive desktop environment that forces you into its way of doing things. I can see that actually being useful in a corporate setting. But to borderline-force that on everyone by way of defaultism, especially those who don’t know better, is where it crosses a line.

    • Leon@pawb.social
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      3 months 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.mlEnglish
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        3 months 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.

        • Leon@pawb.social
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          3 months ago

          Yeah. It’s done it across installs. I installed KDE on my desktop last week because GNOME had some fucked idea of clipboard handling causing a software I use to crash if I try to copy/paste in it.

          My desktop runs Tumbleweed, my personal laptop runs Arch, and my work laptop runs NixOS. Desktop ran an NVidia card up until end of April since I got fucking sick of NVidia and their shitty drivers, it’s now an AMD card.

          The laptops both run Intel.

          Modern KDE is stabler than things were back in KDE4, for sure, but it’s hardly stable or snappy.

        • DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca
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          3 months ago

          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.

          • BlindPenguin@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Which version did you test last? 4 was horribly bad, 5 got a little better, but i feel like with 6 they got it under control now. At least on openSuse.