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I don't like KDE at all. Too busy, terrible-looking right click menu on the desktop (some lines long, some short). It's that stuff that give me OCD. I like cleanliness in the UI.
Lol, that's what makes me hate GNOME. If I wanted the bare minimum I'd just start a raw display server with only 1 program in it.
But my brain has no issue with dozens of things happening at once (ADHD).
Hmm... my right click menu looks uniform. Could be your theme.
I like KDE’s conformance to open standards, which is better than GNOME’s, and pace of development. However you’re absolutely right that the UI on KDE is inconsistent, messy, and buggy as hell. GNOME is still my go to because it’s just so polished, but I’m looking forward to COSMIC this year for that nice tiling workflow
I've said it before, I don't really like KDE or GNOME because they're on opposite ends of the spectrum.
GNOME seems to have a very vivid ideal of beauty, and that ideal is "empty windows that don't do anything." Open up a utility app, Big window with lots of empty space with a few buttons crammed in the top bar and not enough options to do what you actually need to do.
KDE feels a lot more amateurish in that...things don't line up as well, the spacing between elements is off a lot, and the whole experience is BUSY! Lots of UI elements everywhere. A basic utility will have more options than you knew what to do with just in case. It's hideous the way the control panel at a nuclear power plant is hideous.
So I use Cinnamon. Which Gnome is trying very hard to corrupt, but for now it works while still being comfortable and comprehensible.
I was reading this whole thing thinking “this is why I use Cinnamon.” I like that I can customize Cinnamon without it being ridiculous.
That said, the best Cinnamon experience is on Mint. Fedora’s spin is crappy. So I don’t really have any teeth in the game.
Yeah basically if you want to use Cinnamon, use Mint. It's the showcase distro.
I agree with you.
If forced to use either of the two, I'm going with KDE in almost all circumstances.
Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.
If I recall correctly, the desktop right click menu was one of the things they fixed in Plasma 6, actually.
Same here. I can't stand the lack of cleanliness in UI. In Plasma, within 5 mins of usage, I can already notice imperfections everywhere.
If only it looked bad but performed well, I might still take it. No matter how many times I try, it's just not stable for me to daily drive.
I also never had an issue with Gnome... 🤷♂️