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.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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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.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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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

        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.

      • Julian@lemm.ee
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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.

  • 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

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

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    KDE feels like Windows to me. GNOME is something entirely different, it’s UI is very touch friendly, only downside is it has old code all over the place.

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      1 year ago

      Out of the box, maybe, but kde is super customizable to be how you want it. I think gnome can do that too, but it feels much more opinionated and all I ready about is install scripts that break. (I haven’t tried gnome in years though)

    • happyhippo@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      As a KDE guy, indeed gnome is much more polished when it comes to gestures.

      Problem is, I’m also much more of a keyboard guy, and use my laptop mostly docked and with external keyboard/mouse/monitor.

      Touchpad is out of reach most of the time, so I don’t really care about gestures.

  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like this is used either by someone who hasn’t used KDE in a decade or has been using Linux (Ubuntu) for less than a year.

    The worst thing you can say about KDE is that the default configuration is pretty basic. However, that’s arguably a good thing because that format is straight up better for productivity.

    KDE has also embraced user choice. Not only do they design the desktop and applications to be much more configurable than GNOME. A power user can customize KDE in a way that seems to personally offend GNOME developers. In addition, KDE 5 designed their libraries in a way that other DEs can leverage them while still doing their own thing. I haven’t kept up, but at one point that was a huge boon to LxQT development.

    Above all else, the KDE team seems a lot more reasonable than the GNOME team. Over the past decade, KDE has worked hard to rebuild trust after their disastrous 4.0 rollout. Meanwhile in that same period four different groups of developers have decided to go their own way because they felt the GNOME team was impossible to work with.