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the main differences!! (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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this is just a meme, I know that everyone is different and not all GNOME or KDE users are like that!!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The philosophies of the two DEs are diametrically opposed. For example KDE will let you customize everything, they'd even let you customize their mothers of they could, while GNOME won't let you customize anything, at least not without extensions that break every time GNOME updates.

KDE devs are also a lot less opinionated than GNOME devs. If they could, GNOME devs would question the use case of your clothes, conclude they're useless and then strip you naked. KDE devs will be fine with whatever you're wearing.

Now as you may have gathered I definitely prefer one over the other, but I do recognize some people may like GNOME for its simplicity, looks, flow and I even heard some like the lack of customization because it prevents them from getting distracted with tinkering. All in all use case depends on what you want to do with it, tho hopefully Cosmic DE beats the shit outta GNOME devs those damn pricks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I keep hearing how customisable KDE is but I couldn't find a way to change how big the app icons in the application launcher were, they're so huge!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don’t quote me on it, but I think they just scale to match the panel height, so I’d you shrink the panel the icons should shrink as well. I’ve used the xp style taskbar instead for a long time tho, so I’m not certain…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There may be a different setting somewhere for what you're talking about but when I tried that it just added more rows or columns of icons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ohhh!!!! There is definitely a setting for that (at least on the xp version, but I'd be surprised if it's not for the 7 style one)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Different launchers probably have settings for this