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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well I just switched to KDE Plasma last week and I'm pleasantly surprised just how many things are configurable via a menu and how well it runs on Wayland With a Nvidia GPU.

I used to despise KDE Neon, and used Gnome for a bit, but I don't think I can go back anymore until their design philosophy changes again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I hope they stick to the design philosophy, having different choices in DE is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Problem for me is KDE is dependant on configuration to get it to look nice, GNOME looks nice and works well out of the box but sucks if you want to do anything ontop of that base