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What features would I be losing if I switched to GNOME? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean for this to become a KDE vs GNOME post. I'm looking at switching to Fedora (because Arch is a pain), and it seems that GNOME is more supported. I use KDE on Arch. What features would I be losing if I were to switch? (ex: toolbar management, KRunner, etc.)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The KDE spin of Fedora is very good,there has been rumblings about switching to KDE as the main repo DE. I'd say Gnome is more a set and forget DE, I prefer its tools like Gnome-disks is a lot better for me than KDE partition manager.

I find the tiling better on Gnome through Forge as opposed to Bismuth on KDE.

There are extensions for pretty much anything in KDE like Krunner, Arc menu has something similar to K runner. Just Perfection would handle a lot of toolbar functionality that Gnome tweaks doesn't. Though I would say the extensions aren't as robust as KDE's.