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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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IshKebab ◴[18 Sep 25 15:12 UTC] No.45290674[source]▶
I agree. Significatly better than Gnome. I don't know why so many distros use Gnome by default. The only thing I can think is that it looks a bit nicer. They definitely have better artists.
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dismalaf ◴[18 Sep 25 15:36 UTC] No.45290965[source]▶
More distros support Gnome by default because ALL the corporate distros (Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu) only support Gnome. For better or worse, these corporations also develop Gnome. KDE is less popular because of the license situation of Qt and drama with the commercial entity that does a lot of KDE development.

Gnome looks nicer, is more coherent, and in my experience, absolutely rock solid. Everything works out of the box. Trackpad gestures, touch, touch gestures, multi monitor support, HDR now; everything you could think of.

Gnome also is opinionated, whereas KDE still feels like the ghost of Windows XP combined with random things Linux nerds claim to want...

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1. everybodyknows ◴[18 Sep 25 18:47 UTC] No.45293488[source]▶
> Gnome looks nicer, is more coherent, and in my experience, absolutely rock solid.

In my recurring experiences, GNOME Settings's interaction with CUPS printing support is very far from rock solid -- as in, do yourself a favor and go around it straight to the command line tools.