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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: 0.411s | source
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christophilus ◴[18 Sep 25 13:23 UTC] No.45289397[source]▶
I just find it ugly vs Gnome or Mac. Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors. Admittedly, this was maybe 5 years ago. Has that improved?

These days, I daily drive Niri and love it. I love the workflow of a scrolling WM. I love that I can configure it via a single text file in the standard configuration directory, I love how lightweight it is. It’s just about perfect for me.

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dmd ◴[18 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45289419[source]▶
> Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors.

But enough about Mac OS Tahoe!

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carlosjobim ◴[18 Sep 25 13:35 UTC] No.45289528[source]▶
Gnome has been the best looking desktop for about 5 years now, with OS X in second place. KDE and Windows (after 7) are so far below that they're a category of their own.

Apple should at once hire the people who are responsible for Gnome's UI, because they've got it figured out. Even better, put back together the Nokia N9 GUI team.

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1. prmph ◴[18 Sep 25 22:09 UTC] No.45295626[source]▶
Wow, just goes to show how different people's perception can be. To me Gnome is ugly, I really tried to like it but just could not. Didn't work too well for me also, but no way I'd describe Gnome as nice looking. KDE has been the only DE that does not give me that subliminal feeling of being grainy and crummy in the way that many people have associated with Linux UI since the beginning.