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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: 0.201s | source
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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.

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everdrive ◴[18 Sep 25 14:43 UTC] No.45290329[source]▶
Major changes aren't even _desirable_ in UI. People kind of emotionally enjoy novelty, however when it actually comes to using a computer consistency is superior to absolute excellence. Figuring out where settings and buttons are just because you ran software updates is a total waste of time on both ends; it wastes the user's time, and was a waste of time to develop. Maybe I'll switch from gnome to KDE this weekend, this looks promising.
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1. baq ◴[18 Sep 25 14:55 UTC] No.45290476[source]▶
Glad to know I'm not alone. As I grow older moving stuff around just to make it prettier doesn't do much except make me angry that 'they' changed things for no reason again.