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Gnome is nice and minimalist. It'd be nice tto have built in extension by default to keep the dock always visible without having to activate it in top left corner (very unergonomic considering that the dock is at the bottom). It's unacceptable that you have to install a plugin to keep it on, as a beginner user I didn't even know to install extension manager and what extension to install.
KDE on the other hand is too busy and complicated for new users.
It can also be used very simply though. It works out of the box with any changes necessary. The issue I find with gnome is that its simplicity quickly became a bottleneck for me. E.g. Konsole is just so great and I couldn't live without it anymore
You just install the extension manager or use a web browser. It probably could use more documentation but I also understand that gnome is cautious about user generated content
Yeah, but how will a beginner user know to install extension manager? I didn't. There's no prompt to install it.
For newcomers it just seems like a very basic ui with no configuration options whatsoever. Very frustrating.
It has just as much customization as Windows or Mac OS out of the box. I think the general idea is to not complicate the desktop which I like as I do not do much in the way of customization anyway.
KDE looks basically like a Windows 10 desktop by default tho. That makes it easy for most people to get into it
i think that's the reason steam deck chose KDE as the default UI