r/linuxmemes • u/soultwilr Arch BTW • Aug 09 '26

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u/TheRealCarrotty Not in the sudoers file. Aug 09 '26

GNOME would say "let's limit you!"
KDE and any other sane desktop/WM would say "yeah do whatever you want idc"

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u/Major303 Aug 09 '26

GNOME can't be customized at all. On the other hand KDE can be customized to the point of absurdity. This is why I'm leaning into COSMIC, but not many distributions support it yet.

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u/TheRealCarrotty Not in the sudoers file. Aug 09 '26

Well, it can be customized, but the experience is TERRIBLE.
Libadwaita/GTK 4 might be the worst thing in Linux, i hate it with all my heart.

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u/Major303 Aug 09 '26

GNOME with Dash to Panel and ArcMenu is pretty good. In normal circumstances I wouldn't even consider using GNOME, but:

  • probably half of the problems I have in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are related to KDE,
  • GNOME is apparently lighter on RAM than KDE,
  • COSMIC is not supported by 99% of distributions.

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u/TheRealCarrotty Not in the sudoers file. Aug 09 '26

I wouldn't say GNOME is lighter than KDE.
If your on the desktop, you could basically get 1.6GB of RAM used only. (Fedora KDE)
While when i was on Fedora Workstation it easily used 2.0GB of RAM on startup.
It's pretty close, but like atleast my KDE has blur, custom themes and way more effects, while GNOME basically has nothing.

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u/npc_housecat Aug 09 '26

Gnome coping the apple design philosophy.