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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.667s | 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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dmd ◴[18 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45289419[source]▶
> Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors.

But enough about Mac OS Tahoe!

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carlosjobim ◴[18 Sep 25 13:35 UTC] No.45289528[source]▶
Gnome has been the best looking desktop for about 5 years now, with OS X in second place. KDE and Windows (after 7) are so far below that they're a category of their own.

Apple should at once hire the people who are responsible for Gnome's UI, because they've got it figured out. Even better, put back together the Nokia N9 GUI team.

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1. amlib ◴[18 Sep 25 14:02 UTC] No.45289845[source]▶
Please don't ever again suggest Apple to hire the GNOME team. That would be a very sad day.

Let them cook!

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2. FirmwareBurner ◴[18 Sep 25 14:12 UTC] No.45289953[source]▶
LetTim Cook!
3. pxoe ◴[18 Sep 25 15:16 UTC] No.45290726[source]▶
They already seem to vaguely echo gnome 3 look in macos. Huge titlebars with buttons, sidebar layouts in apps, transparent title bar, control center, etc., there's just a bunch of things that make you go 'huh'.
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4. samtheDamned ◴[21 Sep 25 21:54 UTC] No.45327031[source]▶
I remember the first time I got to use OSX and realized just how much of it looked and felt like a less intuitive gnome haha