I spent a few minutes setting up a Plasma desktop to resemble what I like about GNOME Shell. A screenshot doesn't do it justice imho. Application Dashboard on Meta, Overview on Meta-W, a Panel and Icons-Only Task Manager set to Autohide at the bottom of each screen, and the Tiling Manager.
I love KDE and Plasma.
9 Comments
astrsk@kbin.run · 8 pts · 2y
As much as I love a good light weight DE like XFCE, KDE plasma has been the best experience on multiple distros including Debian and Arch. It's the closest thing to an accessible windows-like experience with all the customization you wish you had in windows with so many applets and widgets that fill in so many gaps in other DEs.
ikidd@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
KDE isn't much heavier than XFCE. On a modern computer, the difference is indiscernible.
ahornsirup@feddit.org · 3 pts · 2y
No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I've not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).
nexussapphire@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
My computers are pretty new. It's the small things that really eat at you though.
Glad I switched even with the teething pains with Nvidia and wayland. I can always fallback on x11 until the bug is squashed. Always new little problems popping up like Nvidia isn't really tested well on the Wayland side.
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Me too
sandayle@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
who doesn't?
anzo@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y
Those who never tried it (yet)!
Qkall@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Isn't the meta gnome users hate us and vice versa? I don't care to think much about it but I feel like I've seen a few memes...
Visikde@lemmy.kde.social · 1 pts · 1y
I've used KDE for more than a decade
Not just the desktop but the Ksuite of programs
Being able to setup a nice custom tool bar
Auto hide panels of a size that my decaying eyes can read
Doing update without having to troubleshoot afterwards :D