KDE @lemmy.kde.social regeya @lemmy.world 3 mo. ago

I love KDE and Plasma.

I spent a few minutes setting up a Plasma desktop to resemble what I like about GNOME Shell. A screenshot doesn't do it justice imho. Application Dashboard on Meta, Overview on Meta-W, a Panel and Icons-Only Task Manager set to Autohide at the bottom of each screen, and the Tiling Manager.

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As much as I love a good light weight DE like XFCE, KDE plasma has been the best experience on multiple distros including Debian and Arch. It's the closest thing to an accessible windows-like experience with all the customization you wish you had in windows with so many applets and widgets that fill in so many gaps in other DEs.
- KDE isn't much heavier than XFCE. On a modern computer, the difference is indiscernible.
  
  No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I've not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).
who doesn't?
- Those who never tried it (yet)!
- Isn't the meta gnome users hate us and vice versa? I don't care to think much about it but I feel like I've seen a few memes...
Me too
I've used KDE for more than a decade
Not just the desktop but the Ksuite of programs
Being able to setup a nice custom tool bar
Auto hide panels of a size that my decaying eyes can read
Doing update without having to troubleshoot afterwards :D

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