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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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ajuc ◴[18 Sep 25 13:42 UTC] No.45289601[source]▶
One thing I missed the most from KDE was changing the volume by mouse wheel on the sound volume icon in tray. And in general mouse wheel interactions on tray.

On windows you have to click the icon before you can interact with it. IIRC on Mac too.

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1. Crestwave ◴[18 Sep 25 14:16 UTC] No.45290005[source]▶
KDE has a lot of really nice little things, like how you can mute specific apps with a single click just like muting browser tabs.

I've used a variety of environments extensively (Windows, macOS, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, i3, dwm, you name it) and this is basically the one feature I find myself regularly missing from another environment.