←back to thread

KDE is now my favorite desktop

(kokada.dev)
892 points todsacerdoti | 8 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.576s | source | bottom
Show context
sirwhinesalot ◴[18 Sep 25 13:47 UTC] No.45289648[source]▶
We now live in a world where KDE looks nicer, more professional, and more consistent than the latest macOS. I don't know how that happened, and KDE isn't even particularly nice looking, but here we are.

For many years now KDE has focused on polish, bug fixing and "nice-to-have" improvements rather than major redesigns, and it paid off.

replies(29): >>45289995 #>>45290073 #>>45290151 #>>45290269 #>>45290300 #>>45290329 #>>45290339 #>>45290551 #>>45290730 #>>45290812 #>>45290839 #>>45290937 #>>45291184 #>>45291224 #>>45291767 #>>45292070 #>>45292195 #>>45293081 #>>45293115 #>>45293191 #>>45293540 #>>45295805 #>>45296420 #>>45296861 #>>45297073 #>>45297580 #>>45298444 #>>45298935 #>>45299011 #
whatevaa ◴[18 Sep 25 14:15 UTC] No.45289995[source]▶
And yet people still complain about some inconsistencies in UI.
replies(3): >>45290058 #>>45290172 #>>45290530 #
1. ActionHank ◴[18 Sep 25 14:21 UTC] No.45290058[source]▶
These people should be forced to use the hair-covered-gum-on-the-floor style UI experience that Windows has become and then perhaps they get to have an opinion.
replies(3): >>45290085 #>>45290312 #>>45290901 #
2. swader999 ◴[18 Sep 25 14:23 UTC] No.45290085[source]▶
There's a hint of cat urine mixed in too.
3. izacus ◴[18 Sep 25 14:41 UTC] No.45290312[source]▶
I find KDE still worse than both Windows 11 and macOS. Sorry, but the UI is just such a mash of margins, borders and icons that it looks downright janky in a way that even Win11 doesn't.
replies(4): >>45290478 #>>45290592 #>>45290688 #>>45293571 #
4. secalex ◴[18 Sep 25 14:55 UTC] No.45290478[source]▶
Um, Windows 11 still hasn’t moved all the necessary utilities and administrative panels over to the windowing toolkit Microsoft introduced in 2012, and MacOS 26(??) is… hideous.
5. sirwhinesalot ◴[18 Sep 25 15:05 UTC] No.45290592[source]▶
Which parts of Windows 11? Because there are still double digit different context menus in there, on recently developed built-in applications (introduced in 8 onwards). KDE is 1000x more consistent than that and has been that way for a long time now.

It still has weirdly inconsistent margins in places but compared to the disaster that is the jumble of different UIs in Windows that's nothing.

macOS before Tahoe, sure, but now? Have you looked at the screenshots where people layered different fullscreen apps on top of each other and the rounded corners look like a stack of cards because they're all different? It's a complete disaster.

You could power all those fancy new AI datacenters with Steve's spinning skeleton.

6. ActionHank ◴[18 Sep 25 15:13 UTC] No.45290688[source]▶
Why are there 2 context menus, multiple places to change settings, and a file explorer that is somehow a worse experience to use than one they had in XP?

All the while they develop and push a product that screenshots what you are doing so that AI can "assist" you. Not to mention pushing ads and news and free to play games.

Maybe the margins or icons aren't what you'd prefer, but you're being intellectually dishonest pretending that there is any uniformity in their product let alone even a single iota of care or interest in the experience the user has with their product.

7. pxoe ◴[18 Sep 25 15:30 UTC] No.45290901[source]▶
Even Windows 11 is more refined and consistent in its design. (well, in the parts that are modern, which...shouldn't it be damning that even with those legacy parts it's still better designed?)
8. chupasaurus ◴[18 Sep 25 18:55 UTC] No.45293571[source]▶
There are 4 (or 5?) volume control UIs in Windows 11.