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Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Meanwhile openbox: black screen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I install Fedora Workstation and change nothing. I'm pretty happy with GNOME in that case. KDE has been too fiddley for me the last few times I tried it. It's there a distro that has a default KDE setup that feels minimal and out of the way?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

afaik KDE still doesn't have any tolerable way to tile windows on wayland

if i need to open a menu to set up zones you are doing it wrong. if i have to pick from premade layouts you are doing it wrong. pop shell on gnome would be perfect if it wasn't married to gnome and slowly rotting over time: i can pick up a window, drag it to where i want to put it in the binary tiling tree, and it goes there.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plasma’s growing on my and I think it definitely works better on a laptop but I just wish it looked like a modern operating system. It feels like something from the 00s at best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It looks very similar to Windows 10. You think Windows 10 looks like something from 00's?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (13 children)

Gnome devs have a clear vision of what Gnome is supposed to be:
simplistic, designed for touchpad and keyboard, not mousy-clicky, and staying out of your way.

People install it, miss stuff they are used to from traditional desktops like Windows or Plasma, and bolt that back on using extensions from third parties.
They install those extensions from a different source than Gnome itself (Gnome from their distro repos, extensions from the website).

And then they complain when those third party add-ons from a different source aren't perfectly integrated or in sync after an update.