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Plasma 6.4: IMO, THE BEST Linux desktop environment right now
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Hate to say it but no, hyprland really is unless you need a windows like experience/don't want to configure anything.
A love Hyprland, but KDE Plasma does so many things for you and saves time. If you want to change screen resolution in Hyprland, you need to check the wiki or man. In Plasma, you simply use the settings app. Each environment has its own purpose, and Plasma’s is for general purpose use.
"Unless you don't want to configure anything"
KDE Plasma has proven to be one of the most customizable desktop environments available. Theming is easily achievable with the versatility of QT, (which is technically on Hyprland but more versatile in a full QT desktop), as well as the versatility of panels that can be moved and modified to whatever you wish for them to be. External plugins or programs like Latte dock, or the Plutonium tile manager further expand on Plasma’s capabilities. Hyprland is also customizable, but almost only through external sources, making Plasma much more accessible and seamless. Of course there are reasons behind this, but each to their own. Feel free to state your own opinions communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz, but since this is an IMO post (basically opinion of the OP), I think we’d all appreciate it if you were more civilized and detailed as to why you felt the need to shoot down the OP. Also, maybe research your claims before commenting.
It is very customizable, that does not counter my claim and I never claimed it wasn't, but if you're going to get deep into customization a basic wm or compositor will usually be better, simply because they are modular and hyprland is absurdly feature rich.
i don't know why you're saying I didn't research this, or I was uncivilized, I just gave my counter opinion. You are clearly misunderstanding me or reading into things I did not say.
That's a fairly useless point to make since everyone will always want to look at what configurable options can be adjusted.
No one would buy a car if they couldn't adjust the seat or mirrors.
Most people do not in fact look at the settings of their computer.
A quick and dirty heuristic to find out is to walk through any central transport station or food court and check:
How many people have customised their phone's lock screen?
The beauty of linux is there is options!
Different people prefer different things and you can freely choose between all the things!
Of course, I recommend kde to people who don't want to configure anything and want a windows like experience, but when saying something is the best, as they claim, these qualifiers become important.
best for what?
He means the best in desktop experience when it comes to desktops with the best adoptability.
Hyprland is a compositor, not a desktop environment.
Remember about cognitive effort, window managers are for people looking to invest time in learning keybinds and new workflows, Plasma and Gnome do a better job of satisfying a bigger userbase and most workflows are easy to port to another desktop environment.
In my opinion that makes Plasma and Gnome the best desktop environments, no matter how much I prefer standalone window managers.
That's why I said "if you don't want to configure anything"
Well yes, but my point is that one can intuitively can use regular DE's and be productive, the same is not true for window managers. Regardles if one configures or not.
yup, which still aligns with my caveat
There is IMO (which stands for "in my opinion") in the title
KDE Plasma, well known for its very limited customisation options
I never said it wasn't customizable, I don't know why so many people heard that.
You said it's not the best and then mentioned Hyperland as a panacea of customization... It is almost implied. Meanwhile the arguments against you go a little bit in circle. This seems like the typical internet people polarizing themselves. We are all enjoying our distros, text editors, DEs, and WMs. No need to start making up factions at all... But it's way more fun to do so because we are humans and our society conditioned us to this. *shrugs*
I am allowed to have preferences, and I am not making factions, just stating my preference.
i never said anything about hyprland being more customizable, I said it's better if you're willing to configure things, if you don't want to build your setup from scratch kde is great!
i disagree that I even implied what you're saying.
You read my message as an accusation to you, but I was describing everyone else and all the downvotes you got!
Of course you, and anyone else, is entitled to their preferences!! That's the beauty of FLOSS. That's precisely my point.