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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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Chance-Device ◴[18 Sep 25 13:09 UTC] No.45289205[source]▶
I’ve been using KDE as my personal daily driver for a few years now. At work I have to use MacOS, and it feels like a serious downgrade. Just about everything is easier and more intuitive on KDE. It’s the single best desktop I’ve ever used.
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criddell ◴[18 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45289429[source]▶
> it feels like a serious downgrade

What kinds of things are you talking about?

These days I feel like all of the major desktop environments are good enough. 95% of what I do with them is launch applications and move or resize windows and that’s easy enough on all of them.

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1. saidinesh5 ◴[18 Sep 25 13:54 UTC] No.45289738[source]▶
The window management and dolphin for file management for one. KDE let's you easily pin windows on top, show on all desktops etc .. Dolphin gives you a nice multi tab, split pane file manager along with a terminal that follows you along.

On my work macbook - I can't install third-party software and the default window management is just not there. It has problems restoring windows to correct size when i switch external monitors... The experience just isn't as nice as KDE on my home laptop.

I had to install inputactions to get mac like touchpad gestures on my home kde set up but after that it just feels nicer and smoother than my office mac

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2. albertzeyer ◴[18 Sep 25 14:07 UTC] No.45289894[source]▶
Long time ago, that was actually very easy on Mac, via SIMBL (https://github.com/albertz/simbl) and Afloat (https://github.com/rwu823/afloat) and you could hack around using FScriptAnywhereSIMBL (https://github.com/albertz/FScriptAnywhereSIMBL) or Pyjector (https://github.com/albertz/Pyjector).

But that doesn't work anymore since a while (I guess due to SIP).