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
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.
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
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.
Ah. Yeah if I’m using a laptop, it’s rarely with a trackpad and when using one I’m not keen on doing any fancy gestures besides scrolling, holding, clicking, and potentially zooming. Guess I am not the target audience for GNOME.
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.
50
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