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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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christophilus ◴[18 Sep 25 13:23 UTC] No.45289397[source]▶
I just find it ugly vs Gnome or Mac. Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors. Admittedly, this was maybe 5 years ago. Has that improved?

These days, I daily drive Niri and love it. I love the workflow of a scrolling WM. I love that I can configure it via a single text file in the standard configuration directory, I love how lightweight it is. It’s just about perfect for me.

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1. gempir ◴[18 Sep 25 13:38 UTC] No.45289557[source]▶
I would recommend checking out Cosmic by System76. It's getting a beta very soon but I've been using the alpha and straight their git main for months now and it's very stable.

It looks amazing and feels super snappy, I have never had such a painless Linux desktop experience. It even has a tiling window manager functionality built-in that was enough for me to sway away from i3/sway. But it also just works like a normal desktop that a non-technical user can use with ease.

https://bsky.app/profile/system76.bsky.social/post/3lylz3cfy...

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2. dimgl ◴[18 Sep 25 13:58 UTC] No.45289787[source]▶
I'm actually super excited about this project. Out of curiosity, does the compositor they use have HDR support? It's one of the features I miss on Linux desktops.
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3. dismalaf ◴[18 Sep 25 15:29 UTC] No.45290874[source]▶
> It's one of the features I miss on Linux desktops.

Not sure about Cosmic, but both Gnome and KDE support HDR these days. Hyprland does as well and I think support for it was also merged into Sway recently.