A picture of Lara Croft in new Tomb Raider hand in hand with Lara Croft from the old Tomb raider Series. The new one labeled GNOME and the old one KDE.

      • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Imo they are both solid technologically, but KDE delivers much more with it’s defaults. Obviously you can theme both to hell and back and make them look however you want and get whatever functionality you want, but default KDE is so much more usable than default gnome it’s not even a competition.

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    1 year ago

    Have you ever used either?

    To say they’re reversed is pushing it as I’m not sure gnome is at the level of the low poly lara yet

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      1 year ago

      I used Gnome for years and can honestly say that if you put a lot of effort into it, mess with configs, and install a few extras, it rises to a new level of kind of shitty but usable.

      Fuck, KDE was pretty a decade ago, and Gnome is still just plugging away, being the bare minimum.

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        1 year ago

        One thing I’ll give gnome, it’s really good for 2-in-1s. The desktop metaphor works really well for tablet and trackpad use out of the box.

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        I honestly don’t really see it, I think vanilla GNOME looks amazing, while KDE Plasma just screams Windows 7 to me.

        Having said it that, both are great DE’s with vastly different approaches. So these can definitely just co exist, while we can both agree that both DE’s are great for different people and workflows.

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    1 year ago

    Everyone here is super salty, meanwhile I just thought this was suggesting that GNOME is like a rounder KDE

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    1 year ago

    That would be way more accurate with KDE on the left and XFCE on the right. GNOME is completely different (and also, hands down, very ugly) out of the box.

      • Used i3 for years, tried bspwm. Liked the concept - absolutely loathed the community. Ended on herbstluftwm.

        If Wayland ever fixes hdpi scaling, I’ll be looking for something that works the same way: configuration is entirely through scripting, not config files. I don’t think I’ll ever give that up, now that I’ve discovered it.

        It looks like hyprland uses config files, right?

  • Richard@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I like the template but the KDE GUI is simply beautiful, and looks very modern, so this is not really a real thing

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      1 year ago

      Good joke

      XCFE feels like it came from that XP/Vista period where UIs were moving away from looking like they were drawn in a terminal but hadn’t quite reached “fluidity” or whatever other bs marketers call modern UIs… I could understand a tiling dm being called better than both but given XCFE is only better at being lightweight, that’s a self-placed restriction because it’s very reasonable to say most people can run either KDE or Gnome with virtually undetectable overhead

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        1 year ago

        Xfce is highly customizable (definitely more than gnome) and can look modern with a little theming. Its also much easier to replace components of the de (like the xfce wm or app launcher for example)

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          I’m sure you could make it look like whatever your head meat blob can come up with, but eventually you’re five hours deep in a rabbit hole nobody has ever gone down and uncovering software bugs that god himself didn’t know about, just trying to make the damn thing usable.

          On GNOME, I don’t have to worry about any of that - the OOTB experience is just fine. For anyone.