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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | 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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whatevaa ◴[18 Sep 25 14:15 UTC] No.45289995[source]▶
And yet people still complain about some inconsistencies in UI.
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WD-42 ◴[18 Sep 25 14:59 UTC] No.45290530[source]▶
KDE the desktop is consistent. The problem is the applications aren't. It's completely possible to run a GNOME desktop without a single QT app, it's near impossible to use KDE without any GTK apps. And there are so, so many great libadwaita apps coming out these days. So on KDE you still end up with an inconsistent mash up of toolkits and styles.
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1. kelvinjps ◴[18 Sep 25 15:41 UTC] No.45291038[source]▶
Both DE have tools to make the UI toolkits to adapt to the DE, GTK with breeze theme and qt with libawaita theme
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2. WD-42 ◴[18 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45291311[source]▶
Sure but they look pretty bad.