6.1 promises to fix some of that jank. I’m a few changes away from switching over.
Counterpoint: KDE is literally the best to ever do it and none even compare
do what? look good while it chokes on itself? because i’d say unity did that even better.
Be the most versatile and usable DE with the best applications
Also works on my machine (14 year old thinkpad)
You’re running a t410??
that’s amazing that it’s still usable today after 14 years, gives me hope that I can keep my t430 running until a similarly good device appears on the market
versatile
sure. idk about “the most”, i haven’t seen it do anything that other DMs can’t do with some tinkering. hell just installing cairo-dock yields a very similar ui experience imo.
usable
i can’t agree, my experience is things not staying where i put them, random crashes, layout and themes not “sticking” between logins, and occasionally the entire session crashing - all this from a fresh install on an untinkered-with system, and it’s been a consistent experience through the years. maybe you’re luckier than i am?
best applications
i never met an application i wanted to run that i couldn’t because i had the wrong DE. what are you talking about?
it’s something I’ve been pointing out for almost half a decade now, the main problem with KDE isn’t any of the bugs, it’s the lack of vision of what the project wants to be
it ends up being a mix of windows with now GNOME’s design due to it never being able to say no when people want “more features and more preferences”
it’s been the same buggy mess for as long as i’ve been using linux, always with the promise that the next update will take it from “neat tech demo” to “suitable permenant DE”, i’m just really confused why it’s the hot shit right now because my experience with the current release was literally identical to the first time i tried it way, way back on maverick meerkat. if i didn’t know any better i’d say they changed the version number and nothing else.
Does that mean you’re on Kubuntu? Which would mean you haven’t even tried Plasma 6 yet right?
Honestly Plasma is moving so fast it feels like the experience would unironically be better on something like Arch or Fedora where you get new updates almost instantaneously. Anyway, I’m on Fedora and Plasma is pretty stable for me, especially since Plasma 6. Some minor annoyances I encountered are also getting fixed in 6.1.
It wants to be feature rich, configurable, and flexible
GNOME already has the Apple “we know better than you so it’s our way or the highway” design strategy down to an art
it’s a project with a cohesive idea of what it wants to build, to a certain extent they are perfectly right to stand with “their way or the highway”
this isn’t an apple thing, it’s just that in the operating system market there isn’t any other example of someone having a defined idea of what they want to build
KDE tries to be all of those things, but trying to cast too wide of a net just gets you a mess of settings and unfortunately buggy experience overall
small edit: I have a ton of respect for the KDE devs, I just realized I’ve been sounding too negative about them, I just don’t like the end product
I’m sorry, but KDE apps are literally the ugliest things on the planet. I really like how many features KDE has, but I just can’t switch due to the looks
KDE is buttery smooth (165Hz, no stutters ever) for me and kwin is a much nicer compositor than mutter.
