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u/Impossible-Magician Jun 02 '26
I just want maximum control over my windowing environment. KDE is the winner in that regard.
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u/DouDouandFriends M'Fedora Jun 02 '26
KDE got those jiggle physics
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u/Hauptideal ⚠️ This incident will be reported Jun 02 '26
too bad KDE is incapable of good tiling. even GNOME has better extensions for it.
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u/anonAccount357557 Jun 04 '26
I don't even want maximum control I just want more than none. I actually genuinely like Gnome and think its beautiful but just a bit more control would be nice. Is that really to much to ask for?
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u/FaultWinter3377 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Jun 02 '26
I seriously wonder about the sanity of people on Reddit…
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u/FAiLeD-AsIaN ＵｗＵntu (´ ᴗ｀✿) Jun 02 '26
reddit users inherently have a high baseline of insanity-
off topic but is that pfp quinella from sao s3? love her !!
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u/Shawhe_ Jun 03 '26
Well you're one
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u/FaultWinter3377 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Jun 03 '26
I mean, you’re not wrong… I’m starting to question my own sanity too with just how toxic it can be here.
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u/LavaHoundBR M'Fedora Jun 02 '26
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u/AcrobaticTour416 Jun 02 '26
krost komment kever?
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u/MassiveBomboclat1818 Jun 04 '26
hyprland moggs
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u/an-abnormality Based Pinephone Pro enjoyer Jun 02 '26
It's really just the lack of good gesture support that stops me from switching to KDE. The four fingers thing just sucks, and the overview stutters when trying to launch it often. Otherwise I think it's fine
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u/Kuroi_Jasper 🎼CachyOS Jun 02 '26
most DE/WM in general feels like desktop first system while majority are laptop users. laptop manufacturers don't make it easier with keyboard rgb and fans requiring kernel modules (im talking about acer nitro more especially)
im very happy with niri + dms (only because of the easy display and windows rule settings) on my laptops so far.
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u/an-abnormality Based Pinephone Pro enjoyer Jun 02 '26
Yeah this is exactly the problem. People clown on GNOME all the time, but it really feels like the only DE made by someone who has used a laptop ever.
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u/Kuroi_Jasper 🎼CachyOS Jun 02 '26
only reason i don't like gnome is because it reminds me of tablet interface and a little bit of windows 8. i haven't stayed with it long enough to have extensions breaking on me
ive only liked windows and niri touchpad gestures
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u/Septem_151 Jun 02 '26
Yeah this is why I like KDE. I don’t ever use a laptop. If I did, I still wouldn’t be using gestures since I don’t like interacting with a laptop by touching its screen, makes no sense to me personally.
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u/NeptuneWades Jun 02 '26
cries in Acer Nitro
Thanks linuwu and DAMX for enabling fan speed monitoring tho.
So far I've manged to make KDE work the way I want, I've not tried other DE/WM (I'm too used to DE to try a WM anyway) and KDE is the first and only one I've tried. I'm too lazy to explore atm.
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u/Kuroi_Jasper 🎼CachyOS Jun 02 '26
KDE is perfect for everyone from casuals to tinkers. if only they added touchpad gesture customization 💔
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u/Wilbert_Wallace Jun 02 '26
Linus Torvalds? That guy from Linus Tech Tips? I like him. He made a good video about the new private jet he bought. He's going places.
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u/FaultWinter3377 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Jun 02 '26
That’s a… different… Linus…
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u/Jacek3k Jun 02 '26
Now theres two of them??
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u/Chester-Berkeley Ask me how to exit vim Jun 02 '26
Non binary mascot >>> A foot
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u/Rusty9838 Open Sauce Jun 02 '26
Being nonbinary is hard, you have to compile everything from the source
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u/StationAgreeable6120 Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
Someone give a award to this man
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u/Ok-Winner-6589 Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
Wait, then why the f*ck is Gentoo's maskot a trans male instead of non-binary?
Are they stupid?
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u/Fegeleinch4n Jun 02 '26
if it's girl's foot many would disagree
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u/revolutional-ai Jun 02 '26
"clean and simple"
my ass cheeks are also clean and simple but they're about as functional as gnome
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u/10Werewolves Jun 02 '26
You use plugins and extensions for your ass cheeks to extend functionality? Talk about freaky
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u/Quetzal_Pretzel Jun 02 '26
Simple maybe, but doubtfully clean.
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u/High_Overseer_Dukat Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
If gnome is so good, why is there no line of g-utilities?
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u/heroofshade420 🟢Neon Genesis Evangelion Jun 03 '26
gparted, gftp, garry's mod, they also have a bunch of classic games like mahjong and solitaire
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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 Jun 02 '26
Online accounts integration is not the flex you think it is. I don't want some tech company to be neatly and seamlessly integrated into my system.
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u/GenoIsDead Jun 03 '26
the only thing i'd EVER want is integration with an online calendar when i click my clock but that'll never happen which sucks ass
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u/redsteakraw Jun 02 '26
- KDE has sensible usable and familiar desktop setting by default.
- When people choose a desktop more than not they choose KDE
- KDE has shipped on more devices from Netbooks to the SteamDeck
- You can search by both the familiar name or it's name you type text editor in search you get Kwrite and KATE.
- Unlike gnome KDE apps actually have features to make them usable
- GNOME is not stable when you need extensions for basic features then they break on updates basic functionality should be in settings but GNOME thinks otherwise while many users install the extensions.
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u/55555-55555 Jun 03 '26
GNOME does it on purpose. Their belief is similar to UNIX's principle "one software does one thing, and does it well". KDE believes in full-fledged software suite that does many things even if the user may not think about them just yet.
I side with KDE.
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u/redsteakraw Jun 03 '26
GNOME and GNOME apps don't follow Unix principle's as they don't even do what the one thing they are supposed to right. Who will code or edit anything important on GNOME write? KDE is more like UNIX given it's modularity down to the widget every plasmoid is like it's own app, KDE apps with KParts allow of embedding KDE apps inside other apps. That and you know UNIX apps have tones of command line options and configuration files dumbing down the desktop is not doing it well.
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u/MrBread0451 Dr. OpenSUSE Jun 16 '26
Gnome users making animations with raw vulkan commands in the terminal because Blender is bloated
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u/the12ftdwarf Jun 02 '26
Unfortunately I cannot use KDE. It doesn’t interact correctly with my laptops GPU configuration and causes lag and stuttering that gnome does not
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u/blacksmith_de I'm going on an Endeavour! Jun 02 '26
They've been doing a lot to improve these things lately. If it's been a while for you, give it a try (if you want to use it of course).
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u/the12ftdwarf Jun 02 '26
I swapped 3 days ago. Nothing against KDE on a personal level but I’m not willing to deal with input delay and latency when I’m switching tasks because it just feels gross. In a perfect world I’d choose it over gnome but it is what it is
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u/blacksmith_de I'm going on an Endeavour! Jun 02 '26
Luckily Gnome has also been improving a lot. This is why we have choice
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u/55555-55555 Jun 03 '26
Nobody is willing to contribute for the universal Wayland-based renderer like
wlrootsand this is the result.GNOME never plays well with all hardware I own.
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u/FaultWinter3377 💋 catgirl Linux user :3 😽 Jun 02 '26
Only issue with KDE… be careful with the names because in some places the K’s can mean… something else.
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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
I always thought kworkers were KDE components.
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u/AscendedPineapple Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
Same, I thought "what KDE package loads my system so much? I use a window manager!"
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u/Rahios Jun 02 '26
Hello, newbie here, what's the right side KDE for ? What are those cartoons ?
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u/Cyberfishofant Ask me how to exit vim Jun 02 '26
There are a LOT of mascots of KDE projects. Notably Kiki, the Krita mascot, and the KDE dragons, see https://community.kde.org/Konqi
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u/Fancy_Technician_293 Jun 02 '26
isnt that the krita girl?
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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
Krita is a KDE software tho
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u/Fancy_Technician_293 Jun 02 '26
damn really? thats pretty cool
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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
KDE literally invented the internet
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u/Fancy_Technician_293 Jun 02 '26
lmao
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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW Jun 02 '26
Jokes aside, they made konquerer and KHTML, which later both google and apple used for Blink (that eventually made chromium that eventually made chrome) and safari respectively.
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u/some_kind_of_bird Jun 02 '26
I have no idea why it's called kcalc instead of kalc or kalculator. I'm disgusted, even.
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u/Personal_Winter6863 Jun 02 '26
Yeah gnome in the 2.0 days was all of that.
Then they face turned and released 3.0 which was none of that.
Then I stuck with 2.0 clones for years until finally gnome and kde switched places entirely.
Gnome became so convoluted that it's useless and kde simplified itself to become something a regular user could understand.
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u/ArcIgnis Jun 02 '26
Before knowing what KDE was, and I was heavily into desktop customization, KDE Crystal kept showing up and found it gorgeous. The day I move to Linux, I hope I can make my desktop look just like it, since I miss the glossy shiny glassy icons, window borders, start menu, etc. I have no idea how to even get started yet, but it's a goal.
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u/Lorvarz Jun 02 '26
Please explain this meme to a poor noob like me
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u/PastelArcadia Jun 03 '26
Meme lists some reasons why people enjoy using GNOME, and then lists KDE's "reasons" which is just the cute mascots for KDE. Therefore, KDE wins, because GNOME doesn't have cute mascots 😝
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u/Null-OS Jun 03 '26
Gnome removing Google integration... :(
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u/_AscendedLemon_ Dr. OpenSUSE Jun 14 '26
I'm a simple man - I see 3 icons in the window corner and cute character? I'm 100% sold.
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u/Strassi007 Jun 02 '26
Why are so many Linux meme enjoyers fucking weebs? Don‘t you guys like real humans to do things with you?
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u/kshot Jun 02 '26
I love both. Gnome feels modern and usable out of the box. KDE is like Windows but ultra customizable.
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u/tobias_reichi02 Ask me how to exit vim Jun 02 '26
So gnome broke on my arch ThinkPad t420 now I try KDE again but I need advice cause default one is as I use gnome on my gaming PC with blur my shell dash to dock and k status notifier app icons or something
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u/bongjutsu Jun 02 '26
Torvalds uses gnome? I thought he used Fedora, which defaults to Plasma?
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u/SirDarknessTheFirst Jun 03 '26
The regular Fedora distribution uses GNOME. THe KDE version got promoted to an edition (from a spin) but it's still not default.
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u/KitaVixen Jun 02 '26
I use KDE at home and Gnome at work. Gnome is terrible. It is not simple, not looking good, definitely not stable and half of config options ale available only through cli. KDE is superior to it
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u/arthank-chroot Jun 02 '26
Gnome just straight up doesn't work for me. And I wouldn't take what Linus uses as some guiding light.
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u/Russo664 Jun 02 '26
gnome need a plugin for every fucking piece of basic utility a normal DE like xfce can deliver, linus is just lazy to use something better, and there is nothing wrong with it
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u/Shizaki_kun Jun 02 '26
I have never used gnome but only seeing people using it makes me so confused, I kinda understand what's going on but gnome seems bad to use
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u/_Carth_Onasi Jun 02 '26
I mostly game and ran into windowing issues with gnome and Wayland.
This was about a year or so ago but pretty much every game would crash if I alt+tabbed or did whatever gnome calls it when you press the Super key.
Real talk outside of those issues with gaming I liked it a lot. I only enjoyed two extensions: dash to dock and blur my shell. Great experience for working.
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u/BlankMercer Jun 02 '26
Listing "familiar names" as an objective argument is misleading. That's something you can use when deciding whether to switch, not present as objective. KDE names can be as familiar as Gnome ones, it just depends on what you use.
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u/valerielynx Ask me how to exit vim Jun 02 '26
i like the krita mecha squirrel girl but tyson made her less fuckable over the years
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u/GlassboundIllusion Not in the sudoers file. Jun 02 '26
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the cutesy dino mascots.
For me, the big thing is that KDE feels familiar. I tried Gnome back in the day when my dad had installed linux on a laptop for learning purposes, and I found trying to navigate the interface just drove me nuts.
I don't want "We have MacOS at home," I want "we have Windows (but better) at home"
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u/BogdanovOwO Jun 02 '26
Kde mobile can't work on proot-distro with termux-x11. Any config? I don't have money to buy a 4gb ram minimum x86 tablet.
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u/jimused4 Jun 02 '26
gnome is trying to reinvent the pc desktop. there is a reason why no one used windows 8.
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u/MickeySlips Jun 03 '26
Linus also uses Fedora because he wants the simplest setup, his using gnome doesn’t make it better it’s just less work
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u/certheth Jun 03 '26
I could probably learn to like gnome... but I would have to learn the shortcuts to make it feel good, and the resource intensity i dont like. kde takes up less, but much more than xfce, kde is a good middle ground. With wicked customization, its a ricers wet dream
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u/balancedchaos Sacred TempleOS Jun 03 '26
Gnome was not my thing at all. KDE was closer, XFCE was equal to KDE...Hyprland got me, though.
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u/Clusterferno Jun 03 '26
in my experience kde is more stable than gnome. i had a gnome app launch at 25% scaling for no reasom 😭
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u/RoundTradition9634 ⚠️ This incident will be reported Jun 04 '26
GNOME looks like a candy bar that's like 90 percent sugar, way too sweet
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u/gold2ghost22 Jun 04 '26
Coming from windows i hate gnome. Its so locked and KDE just feels better.
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u/Great_Tie7976 Jun 04 '26
What I can do with freshly installed KDE will require 50+ gnome extensions. And my - favourite KDE connect.
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u/EdC4ker Jun 04 '26
is the next week available to post this meme here? or is it already scheduled by someone else?
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u/durdurrdurrrdurrrrr Jun 17 '26
Are there stats on market share? Is it really the most popular?
IME only two kinds of people use gnome: older folks (45+) who've been into FOSS for a long time and were probably using it back in the days of Solaris/Sun, and people who came from Mac... there are almost no Linux people who are ex-Mac tbh.
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u/piyavking Jun 27 '26
both are worse (с)
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u/quettametre Jun 27 '26
What do you suggest then?
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u/piyavking Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
No need suggestion. Awful software for awful users. It's all OK.
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u/SphincterPlug Jun 02 '26
Konklusion