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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: 0.001s | source
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pessimizer ◴[18 Sep 25 13:51 UTC] No.45289705[source]▶
I've been feeling guilty for not switching to KDE for years now, because I hate fiddling with desktops. I like the defaults to be boring, and basically to be Windows XP. KDE always struck me as annoying, but 1) MATE is bad and buggy, Caja most of all; and 2) as a Redhat and a Gnome hater, I really have no right to still be using it.

Is there an easy way to get the Windows XP/Gnome 2 experience out of KDE?

It would be magic if there were a Debian package called "I don't care about my desktop, it takes me months to change the wallpaper from the default."

I do not care about beauty, I only care about stability (i.e. my desktop from 30 years ago.) If I could get WinXP out of XFCE, I would switch to that, but my attempts have been disappointing ergonomically. All of the webcruft and sparkle in Cinnamon is also very offputting, although I've been happy to recommend it to others who don't have the same irritation triggers as me.

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1. thyristan ◴[18 Sep 25 14:50 UTC] No.45290426[source]▶
IceWM hasn't changed in more than a decade. ;)
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2. pessimizer ◴[18 Sep 25 15:45 UTC] No.45291101[source]▶
I think you might have got me. Never tried it, going to try it now.
3. LargoLasskhyfv ◴[19 Sep 25 04:35 UTC] No.45297987[source]▶
If you mean the general way of using it, and stability, yes.

But it is not stale, there have been a few releases in the last years, last one only about a month ago.

One new feature they introduced was 'tabbed windows'.

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4. thyristan ◴[19 Sep 25 08:52 UTC] No.45299442[source]▶
That's what I meant. There are no breaking changes. My config works the same as back then. I can use new features, but nothing forces me to use them, no "designer" decides I have to work differently after this update.