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Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I don't like KDE at all. Too busy, terrible-looking right click menu on the desktop (some lines long, some short). It's that stuff that give me OCD. I like cleanliness in the UI.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lol, that's what makes me hate GNOME. If I wanted the bare minimum I'd just start a raw display server with only 1 program in it.

But my brain has no issue with dozens of things happening at once (ADHD).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Hmm... my right click menu looks uniform. Could be your theme.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've said it before, I don't really like KDE or GNOME because they're on opposite ends of the spectrum.

GNOME seems to have a very vivid ideal of beauty, and that ideal is "empty windows that don't do anything." Open up a utility app, Big window with lots of empty space with a few buttons crammed in the top bar and not enough options to do what you actually need to do.

KDE feels a lot more amateurish in that...things don't line up as well, the spacing between elements is off a lot, and the whole experience is BUSY! Lots of UI elements everywhere. A basic utility will have more options than you knew what to do with just in case. It's hideous the way the control panel at a nuclear power plant is hideous.

So I use Cinnamon. Which Gnome is trying very hard to corrupt, but for now it works while still being comfortable and comprehensible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was reading this whole thing thinking “this is why I use Cinnamon.” I like that I can customize Cinnamon without it being ridiculous.

That said, the best Cinnamon experience is on Mint. Fedora’s spin is crappy. So I don’t really have any teeth in the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah basically if you want to use Cinnamon, use Mint. It's the showcase distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If forced to use either of the two, I'm going with KDE in almost all circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.

[–] moomoomoo309 3 points 7 months ago

If I recall correctly, the desktop right click menu was one of the things they fixed in Plasma 6, actually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Same here. I can't stand the lack of cleanliness in UI. In Plasma, within 5 mins of usage, I can already notice imperfections everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If only it looked bad but performed well, I might still take it. No matter how many times I try, it's just not stable for me to daily drive.