KDE. Gnome can be beaten into something almost passable with tweaks and extensions, but the extensions die rapidly and it's never quite right and I don't want to spend more than 30~ minutes customizing a desktop. Pop_OS so far are the only people who made any significant progress in making Gnome less obnoxious to use.
I also use xfce. Im not asking which you think is best or which you use, I'm asking which you prefer between two options. Your preference of other options is irrelevant.
not the op but its very minimalistic, doesnt come with 900 different programs, has less bugs but has a major problem of screen flickering -fixable with disabling xfce compositor and using picom- and on top of that its very comfy and ui is user friendly.
kde because it already looks like what I expect a PC desktop environment to be. Gnome looks like some fucking tablet shit and requires buggy extensions to fix. Fixing what I don't like about kde amounts to toggling settings or adding widgets that already exist in the de itself
Gnome
I've never used KDE
I see a lot of bitching about extensions and tweaks. They are just configuration tools. I haven't had any problems with them ( there was one weather extension that I liked and the creator decided he didn't want to do it anymore and no one picked it up. It still works). I've used other DE's as well.
It's a new paradigm / workflow vs windows and much better once you get used to it. Pop!_OS unironically does Gnome best of all distros and it's worth using for that alone.
Kde plasma
It looks and acts the most like Windows but for Linux
It just works and hasn’t crashed on me since February 2019 when I first installed Arch Linux.
With kde plasma I can forget that I’m using Linux and just use my computer. It does its best to just get out of my way. If there’s something I don’t like, I can change it.
With gnome, you’re using gnome. Your forced to face it, and interact with it their way and to hell with your eons of muscle memory. It’s like wish.com mac os. If I wanted to get fucked up the ass I would buy a macbook and go to Starbucks.
Imagine going through life with zero personality. I bet you don’t have a single poster or picture on your bare walls. Your refrigerator is bare too. You’re most likely overweight and eat like shit and hardly ever bathe. The last time a woman said anything to you it was “get the fuck away from me” before she pepper sprayed you then proceeded to kick you in the nuts. While you laid there, everyone pointed and laughed. Now you dress in drag and act like a tranny for the attention but deep down, we both know the sad truth, not even your parents want to know you. And why would they, they paid $40,000 for one year of med school before you switched majors to gender studies. You’re nothing but a pathetic loser with no life. Everything about you is fake and borrowed from the world around you.
i3 on my work desktop, gnome on laptop. Kde is neat and has some cool features but I've never been able to get decent stability out of it. It's been a few years since I've tried, so maybe it's gotten better. I'll have to try it out soon and see.
KDE can't discern what monitor (out of the 2 I use) to minimize to/maximize from. It's fucking annoying once you notice it. Gnome is for touch screens so Cinnamon is the only choice left. XFCE is fine if you use Xubuntu or are willing to spend an hour or so undoing vanilla XFCEs retarded defaults.
KDE by a longshot, but I actually use Cinnamon, Xfce, and LXQt on my personal boxes. GNOME is designed to accommodate non-existent usage patterns,m, and it has become the least flexible DE available.
Gnome. KDE looks nice at first but it breaks very easily if you rice it. Gnome is way more stable and with the shell extensions it's pretty much exactly how you might like it. I ran KDE for a long time but with 22.04 LTS I switched to Gnome and it all just works. I had multiple 4K screens and KDE could not figure out how to scale anything so I ended up having to increase text DPI. No such problem with Gnome.
KDE because I easily set up a functional 2x2 workspace grid with le epic animootions and a useful overview screen. If I could do this properly without KDE, I would. Alas, for now I take the blooooooat.
i like gnome alot, it's just nicer and I just have muscle memory for both now. recent windows versions also have just... added shit from GNOME? it's pretty nice
KDE >sane defaults >made for desktop >customizable >doesn't need any third-party extensions to work well
GNOME >atrocious defaults >made for ipads >not customizable without filling it with third-party extensions >hides settings for no reason and you need to install gnome tweaks to show them
>panel at the bottom >no top bar >applications menu stays in the corner and doesn't occupy the entire screen
yep that's sane defaults, anything else can be changed in seconds and doesn't rely on other users to write third party code that breaks with major updates
I use both for different use cases. I use Gnome through ubuntu-desktop on my 2-in-1 tablet PC, and KDE on my desktop. Gnome is a hell of a lot better at doing tablet computer tasks than KDE, and KDE just makes a lot more sense to me on the desktop than Gnome, being a Windows user in recovery.
KDE. Gnome can be beaten into something almost passable with tweaks and extensions, but the extensions die rapidly and it's never quite right and I don't want to spend more than 30~ minutes customizing a desktop. Pop_OS so far are the only people who made any significant progress in making Gnome less obnoxious to use.
Xfce. The freedom of choice presented by Linux means I can opt out of this false dichotomy.
I also use xfce. Im not asking which you think is best or which you use, I'm asking which you prefer between two options. Your preference of other options is irrelevant.
>when confronted with a choice, PICK BOTH
bc fy
What do you prefer about Xfce?
not the op but its very minimalistic, doesnt come with 900 different programs, has less bugs but has a major problem of screen flickering -fixable with disabling xfce compositor and using picom- and on top of that its very comfy and ui is user friendly.
KDE, Gnome is good only without extensions but KDE is better.
GNOME. It's stable, it has a sane release schedule, it's keyboard oriented, and it looks good as well.
sway
Openbox
kde because it already looks like what I expect a PC desktop environment to be. Gnome looks like some fucking tablet shit and requires buggy extensions to fix. Fixing what I don't like about kde amounts to toggling settings or adding widgets that already exist in the de itself
Gnome
I've never used KDE
I see a lot of bitching about extensions and tweaks. They are just configuration tools. I haven't had any problems with them ( there was one weather extension that I liked and the creator decided he didn't want to do it anymore and no one picked it up. It still works). I've used other DE's as well.
gunome because i like feet
kde because you don't have to write a position paper to convince the devs to fix some minor UI bug
KDE. Using GNOME just fucking sucks.
Gnome.
It's a new paradigm / workflow vs windows and much better once you get used to it. Pop!_OS unironically does Gnome best of all distros and it's worth using for that alone.
it's very similar to pop_0s
i like feet but i use KDE
KDE because I hate ram hogging bullshit.
the one that ubuntu uses for default
KDE. Using Gnome just isn't a pleasant experience for me. Also, I'm reasonably familiar with Qt - not so much GTK.
Neither.
Mint/Cinnamon just works out of the box.
KDE. Reason being is that I think Gnome looks like shit.
KDE and Cinnamon
KDE. Gnome is just a fucking shit show and has been since gnome 3 came out over a decade ago.
Also the KDE devs actually fucking listen to users and acknowledge rough spots. Unlike the idiots at Gnome.
Kde plasma
It looks and acts the most like Windows but for Linux
It just works and hasn’t crashed on me since February 2019 when I first installed Arch Linux.
With kde plasma I can forget that I’m using Linux and just use my computer. It does its best to just get out of my way. If there’s something I don’t like, I can change it.
With gnome, you’re using gnome. Your forced to face it, and interact with it their way and to hell with your eons of muscle memory. It’s like wish.com mac os. If I wanted to get fucked up the ass I would buy a macbook and go to Starbucks.
guhnome. it looks good and is consistent. never bothered with extensions
Imagine going through life with zero personality. I bet you don’t have a single poster or picture on your bare walls. Your refrigerator is bare too. You’re most likely overweight and eat like shit and hardly ever bathe. The last time a woman said anything to you it was “get the fuck away from me” before she pepper sprayed you then proceeded to kick you in the nuts. While you laid there, everyone pointed and laughed. Now you dress in drag and act like a tranny for the attention but deep down, we both know the sad truth, not even your parents want to know you. And why would they, they paid $40,000 for one year of med school before you switched majors to gender studies. You’re nothing but a pathetic loser with no life. Everything about you is fake and borrowed from the world around you.
tldr
Leave at once.
I use XFCE or i3 because they are lightweight there is also dwm, but I've never had the chance to patch it to my liking.
My bad for not reading the thread properly. I would go for KDE as gnome sucks in terms of functionality.
Reconciled. You may stay.
That is not an answer to the thread. Leave, at once.
You’re good, xfce is my second favorite. It’s pretty based.
Leave at once.
Never.
I am a window manager guy but if i had to choose it would be Gnome because KDE is a inconsistent buggy mess.
Only if you’re using Debian.
Really? What do other distros fix about Debian's KDE?
KDE, GNOME is unusable
Gnome, because I'm not a retard.
They are both dogshit just use window manager
i3 on my work desktop, gnome on laptop. Kde is neat and has some cool features but I've never been able to get decent stability out of it. It's been a few years since I've tried, so maybe it's gotten better. I'll have to try it out soon and see.
GNOME. I have a job.
Does your job involve performing oral sexual intercourse on males by any chance?
My job requires me to use a computer, preferably without wasting any time fixing weird krashes and glitches.
In that case GNOME is a terrible choice.
It is far better than KDE in real world. It's not even up for discussion, KDE is simply too buggy and unpolished for professional use.
The only reason you see so many KDE shills on LULZ is because GNOME users are busy getting work done.
You are just too poor to run anything than xfeces.
If you just want to upvote/downvote without contributing anything to the conversation, go back to r*ddit
Because people only make 1 post right dumbfuck? I could have made half the posts in this thread and you wouldn't fucking know.
Ask me how I know you're a Gnome user...
Neither, their licensing options suck. Fuck them both.
>Which do you prefer
KDE
>why?
Sex with Konqi
legit
KDE can't discern what monitor (out of the 2 I use) to minimize to/maximize from. It's fucking annoying once you notice it. Gnome is for touch screens so Cinnamon is the only choice left. XFCE is fine if you use Xubuntu or are willing to spend an hour or so undoing vanilla XFCEs retarded defaults.
KDE by a longshot, but I actually use Cinnamon, Xfce, and LXQt on my personal boxes. GNOME is designed to accommodate non-existent usage patterns,m, and it has become the least flexible DE available.
I prefer windows 11
Gnome. KDE looks nice at first but it breaks very easily if you rice it. Gnome is way more stable and with the shell extensions it's pretty much exactly how you might like it. I ran KDE for a long time but with 22.04 LTS I switched to Gnome and it all just works. I had multiple 4K screens and KDE could not figure out how to scale anything so I ended up having to increase text DPI. No such problem with Gnome.
Sounds like a (you) problem. KDE is not for trannies.
Absolutely GNOME, mainly because of libadwaita and themeing consistency, and workflow.
FeetDE because nvidia
KDE because I easily set up a functional 2x2 workspace grid with le epic animootions and a useful overview screen. If I could do this properly without KDE, I would. Alas, for now I take the blooooooat.
KDE. Obviously.
i like gnome alot, it's just nicer and I just have muscle memory for both now. recent windows versions also have just... added shit from GNOME? it's pretty nice
KDE
>sane defaults
>made for desktop
>customizable
>doesn't need any third-party extensions to work well
GNOME
>atrocious defaults
>made for ipads
>not customizable without filling it with third-party extensions
>hides settings for no reason and you need to install gnome tweaks to show them
>sane defaults
bait.
>panel at the bottom
>no top bar
>applications menu stays in the corner and doesn't occupy the entire screen
yep that's sane defaults, anything else can be changed in seconds and doesn't rely on other users to write third party code that breaks with major updates
xfce or cinnamon.
KDE or LXDE.
kde. gnome is ugly and looks like its made for tablets. the devs are also insufferable.
I use both for different use cases. I use Gnome through ubuntu-desktop on my 2-in-1 tablet PC, and KDE on my desktop. Gnome is a hell of a lot better at doing tablet computer tasks than KDE, and KDE just makes a lot more sense to me on the desktop than Gnome, being a Windows user in recovery.
GNOME by a long shot
I haven't used either longer than 10 minutes and everyone that does must be braindead.
>GNOME - GPL
>KDE/Qt - GPL/LGPL/proprietary
none, you're getting cucked either way
They're both shit and a big reason why desktop Linux will never take off.
GNOME, yeah. KDE is actually designed with usability in mind.
xfce
Hm, hm... XFCE, LXDE, LXQt, Fluxbox or IceWM. Those two don't give me the freedom to have 3 or more apps open or a browser with 5 tabs or more open.