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KDE Plasma 6.5 released
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I just moved to Plasma from XFCE and my first thought was wow, this runs fine on old hardware, why have I been suffering through the 2010 experience when I could have had features all this time!?
Yeah, I went down a similar path.
It turns out ever since a few years ago, Plasma takes comparable resources to XFCE.
What really sent me over the edge was Plasma's support for Wayland.
Aww, I will always love XFCE and save a place for it in my heart ... but I moved to Plasma 2 years ago and haven't really looked back either >_>
XFCE is fine, it seems to largely behave and while it doesn't have any bells and whistles it can do everything it tries to do fine. Gnome on the other hand... everything I wanted it to do required a plugin which had since been broken by a new version. Plasma seems great so far!
Agreed. I was actually afraid to modify my KDE desktop for months because of the trauma sustained from just trying to customize Gnome a bit. My configuration is still pretty vanilla, but it's got enough personal flair to it that it feels uniquely mine and I'm the happiest I've been.
GNOME is Mac's DE for Linux.
At least Mac has the whole menu bar going for it. I started out on GNOME but the empty bar in the top just bothered me. Then I went XFCE but I kept running into small annoyances, that probably could be fixed somehow but I don’t really have time to fight/tweak my computer. And now I’m on Plasma and so far it just works and the small tweaks I have done were quick.
I'd argue that it's Android's DE for Linux.
Including the limitations of options, albeit worse than Apple. I really don't understand the hubris of that team.
Well, itwas a long road getting front he first Plasma version to today's
I've only been a Linux user for a couple of years though so I've got no excuse!