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KDE Vs Gnome - Heavyweight Championship (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ding Ding Ding

It comes down to this, the heavyweight desktop championship between two powers in the Linux world.

In the blue corner, we have the mighty KDE, KDE comes with a wealth of customization options and good features with every update. It serves a nice alternative to windows 10 or 11s desktop and itself as an OS.

KDE has got so good that even legendary distro, Fedora, wishes to use it in its dealings.

In the grey/black corner, we have GNOME, This is a heavy distro with some ram usage, but it strives to be a simple desktop for usage and has had some good features every new version it comes packaged in as well.

GNOME has had a long history much like KDE, But controversial changes from its older brother.

However.. big name distros like Ubuntu have used it across millions of machines in different sectors.

What desktop do you favour and why? Explain your thoughts.

Round 2... GO!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

i know i'll get downvoted but this was my experience last time i tried kde a few weeks ago (kubuntu and fedora kde):

cool animations but stuttery as hell
browser randomly consuming 10% of cpu, making everything else slow as if it was using 100% (tested: firefox, librewolf, floorp, brave)
programs refusing to install
programs refusing to open
editing the taskbar often resulted in all the items going on top of each other, i couldn't move them until i rebooted. couldn't find an option to reset the whole thing
i put cpu and gpu temps in the system monitor and it always borked after it had been closed a few minutes
kded5 or something like that constantly popped up wanting to create a new wallet. couldn't figure out how to disable. guides pointed to a configuration file that didn't exist on my system

idk if it's an nvidia thing but none of these happen on other DEs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's more of a distro problem than KDE. I have nvidia toi, and I admit, it bugs sometimes out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

My experience of anything Ubuntu based is that it is buggy as hell. I have no knowledge of Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 29 minutes ago

well yeah i tried ubuntu a couple years back and i remember having some issues with it too.

weird thing is that mint has never had any issues even though it's based on ubuntu. not even nvidia related issues.