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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: 0.001s | 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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flohofwoe ◴[18 Sep 25 13:32 UTC] No.45289490[source]▶
KDE Plasma 6 looks absolutely gorgeous on my Kubuntu laptop with highdpi OLED display, and that's coming from a mainly-Mac-user :)

(this wasn't my main reason to switch from Gnome though, I just couldn't stand the random design decisions in each Gnome update anymore, and generally Gnome never really clicked with me the way KDE immediately did - which is also strange since Gnome is supposed to be the 'Mac desktop clone', while KDE is supposed to be the 'Windows desktop clone' heh)

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1. amlib ◴[18 Sep 25 13:56 UTC] No.45289760[source]▶
I really dislike how people present KDE and Gnome as being "clones" of Windows and MacOS. GNOME specially is so distinct (be it for good and bad reasons) that it deserves to be considered it's own thing. I can't stand MacOS with all it's Macosisms that are ingrained since it's Macintosh days. GNOME being grown for PC usages has none of these issues. Window management is also a breeze and easy to pickup rather than a byzantine mess. The only thing they really share is a nice, sparse look & feel.

KDE does have a lot more similarities to Windows but saying it's a clone might put the wrong idea on peoples mind when they transition from Microsoft's system.

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2. flohofwoe ◴[19 Sep 25 06:41 UTC] No.45298604[source]▶
Back in the olden days, Microsoft and Apple did a lot of actual UI research, and for a resource-limited open source project there was no shame in piggybacking on those research results IMHO. But with the 'UX mafia' taking over big companies, nowadays it's reversed, the resource limited open source projects often have better usability.