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KDE Vs Gnome - Heavyweight Championship (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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!

Ding

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I use Mint with Cinnamon with the Cinnamenu menu (instead of the default ugly one). I'm able to make Mint to start up at 700 MB of RAM. On my fast desktop I have Debian Testing with Gnome 47, that one starts at 1.5 GB of RAM. I'm thinking of using Mint there too.

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

I prefer Cinnamon and Budgie

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

I love gnome's design a lot and I want to use it so badly but for whatever reason it crashes on my PC if I game. Entire DE just closes and I'm back to the login screen. I thought it was just some weird Nvidia bug but same thing happenes on my AMD card.

The issue is the vram will fill up from gaming and both cards I have only have 4GB of VRAM.

However KDE doesn't crash once the VRAM fills up. I don't understand why or how the DE is affecting VRAM management but on KDE it'll start using my ram and that'll fill up a good bit. Game will slow down to a crawl but hey at least it doesn't crash.

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

personally i find gnome to be kinda weird to use and kde has been so completely crippled with bugs and performance issues every time i have given it a shot (may be a skill issue on my end), that i still have to vote for gnome.

cinnamon ftw.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (22 children)

You didn't mention KDE's lack of any adequate stability. That's what makes it incomparable to GNOME. They serve completely different use cases.

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