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[-] luxliminal@piefed.social 16 points 11 months ago

Steam Deck made me fall back in love with KDE, and it's what I use with Arch on my desktop now. Second favorite is probably Cinnamon.

Try as I might I just can't with Gnome.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The nice thing about GNOME is that you immediately get it, on a fundamental level that is. The not so nice thing is that lots of stuff is an add-on, and it's entirely possible installing the wrong one will brick your desktop

[-] amorpheus@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I disagree that Gnome is intuitive on a fundamental level. They're trying the Apple way of UI design without the millions in R&D.

[-] luxliminal@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago

I get it, but maybe the same way I get driving on the other side of the road, or writing with my non-dominant hand: I can do it, and maybe I could get used to it or even be efficient with it, but it's unfamiliar and far from being second nature to me.

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I always feel gnome is more fitting for laptop or tablet. KDE on my desktop.

Just seem to be different use cases.

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