I love how you need to stretch out positives for gnome to have that many. "Uh... It's popular? And some of the applications have good names, I guess?"
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Is it really most popular?
It's not more stable than plasma surely, at least when user does any customization.
Simplicity is questionable, unless simple means 'unlearn everything and do it our way'.
For a long time it was. KDE kind of exploded themselves back around version 4. GNOME made huge inroads while the KDE Dev team's got their shit sorted. Main DE to the flagship general user distribution etc. It's just a fact. And not gonna lie I still have fond memories of GNOME 2.
But the KDE team really put their time in and cooked. It isn't perfect. But the over all polish shows. Not to mention its been snowballing lately. I have my whole family on plasma 6 right now. It's familiar as it needs to be, stable and mostly intuitive. It's just so good. In fact my only gripe right now is a niche Wayland issue and not DE related.
I just randomly tried KDE recently and made the swap from Linux Mint to Kubuntu a week ago. Definitely agree on the polish factor, everything just feels great with KDE and I've been pretty happy
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yea, gnome is "more popular". doesn't mean it's "better", just that it's the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.
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We all know that the real MVP is Xenia
Did the Gnome people ever figure out how to put icons on the desktop yet?
Icons on the desktop is a non-feature for most gnome users. Even my Windows desktop has been empty since XP released. If you really want desktop icons then using an extension for that should be fine, but it's silly to frame this as a failing of the "Gnome people" just because Gnome doesn't replicate the classic Windows desktop experience.
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XFCE: including it in the meme is bloat
I really don't want online accounts integration in my DE though. I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.
I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.
In theory the one place where you can enter your Nextcloud or whatever credentials and syncing for calendar, mails, file storage ect. happens automatically everywhere after confirming which services should connect.
It's not my personal must have feature but when it works, it's alright.
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On other news, KDE works, and Gnome doesnt; so that koncludes it for me
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Yeah dont love how kiki the squirel looks like a child in a bikini wtf.
I see someone wants to run for president
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Amateurs
These are only the safe ones, you coward!
I like Gnome. I like KDE, too. I actually think they're both great, in their own ways, but I personally prefer Gnome.
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Are we sure that Gnome is the most popular? I would've expected KDE to be the most popular one, even not considering the mascots.
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KDE got around to updating the theme Kpersonalizer.
Original for those who don't remember what it was like:
Jokes aside: I love KDE. Gnome is an idea that would work if you could actually do anything with it (maybe always adding extensions means they should you know make it functional).
Yep the design philosophy of "like it or fuck you" evokes Apple clearly enough. They've just cut it to the quick at this point.
In case you're wondering, there are 31 explicit entries that has Konqi tag on e621.
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Heh. My Linux started with Ubuntu like many others. I appreciated GNOME.
Then I got confident enough to distro hop and with that cam DE hop. Can't deny KCD is just so much better for the kind of user I am.
It's just kinda nice having your computer do what you want it to do, ya know?
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