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KDE Vs Gnome - Heavyweight Championship (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It really isn't, at least in my experience. And I have an Nvidia card!

Oh then it makes sense why you argued. However it's important to keep in mind that experience can vary among users. For example, in my case Plasma was very unstable on an Intel iGPU.

All software beyond a moderate complexity has bugs.

Not an excuse tbh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not an excuse tbh.

The thing to do is participate in the beta programs and report any bugs you find, as you're having so much instability you would be an ideal participant whereas me with my smooth running wouldn't.

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

It's not what I'm saying. KDE releases untested and buggy builds to stable. It makes it unstable software. If you're a KDE fan, I understand, but don't reject objective facts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What part of

All software beyond a moderate complexity has bugs.

didn't you understand?

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

The part where it says that it makes it stable and also the part where it says that GNOME is unstable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues

KDE doesn't seem to give you an overall view

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

You didn't mention KDE's lack of any adequate stability. That's what makes it incomparable to Gnome.

But then also:

However it's important to keep in mind that experience can vary among users.

Oh the irony.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

It's not irony. Floating defects and hardware-specific fixes exist.