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How important is a DE to you?
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Gnome is soooo annoying. You can't customize anything without "tweaks" that barely work.
I definitely prefer the customization of KDE.
Yeah I often wonder about this too. I think that the package manager is another major factor. But I think I might be happy with any distro running KDE. I've gotta get outside my Debian bubble to see.
Actually that's what I like about GNOME. I don't want a ton of customization options, a right-click menu with multiple dozen entries and a settings menu that needs a "table of contents".
Reduce the UI to such a degree, that you cannot remove anything more without breaking. Thats what I want.
I don't always mind not having the customization of Plasma, what I mind is needing that customizstion because the defaults are awful and GNOME's "opinionated" design to me has done clearly awful decisions on the defaults
I'm not trying to convince you to like something you don't, and KDE is a fucking great suite of software.
However, it does sound like maybe you haven't used GNOME in quite a long time. It does have various customizations built in that are available to users through the settings UI these days, and "tweaks that barely work" isn't really a representative critique of the general ecosystem anymore.
GNOME's extension platform is very mature at this point, and I've personally used a bunch of the same extensions for years now spanning like 10 major releases of GNOME without issue. Yeah, the little fly-by-night extensions that get two point releases and then are abandoned don't work forever, but that's true of a lot of old software, and is probably a good thing, honestly.