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.

          • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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            1 year ago

            Is it? Gnome loads in a ton of services and feels pretty bloated to me. I don’t notice that it’s any lighter than KDE, and it often feels more sluggish.

            But, they’re both desktops and are loading in a bunch of stuff whether you use it or not, so you’re right that they’re pretty comparable.

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              1 year ago

              Gnome is bloated. It needs seconds just to oprn start menu/app switcher/or something like that on my low end laptop… :/
              It also uses more ram at iddle.

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              1 year ago

              Bro offered a truce, why not take it?

              Plasma and GNOME both have legitimate uses, no one is objectively better than the other.

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            Plasma itself isn’t bloated, it is only bloated if you install the entire suite of KDE applications. Installing plasma by itself doesn’t require that many dependencies.

            GNOME has a similar level of optionals for their desktop environment as well, you’re just expected to actually INSTALL them.

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            1 year ago

            KDE uses less RAM, you can fact check quite easily.

            Depending on the distro it ships with more or less stuff, but a few games, an office suite, media players for audio/video and in some cases a partition manager, are all necessary tools in any setup, at least in my book.

            I don’t see the bloat.

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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.

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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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      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.

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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.