KDE wins (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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GNOME: "clean and simple", "most popular de", "stable", "best online accounts integration", "familiar and simple names for applications", a picture of a Characters list on a r34 type imageboard saying that there are 12 entries for "wilber (gimp)"; VS; KDE: another such image saying that theres 100 "kiki the cyber squirrel" entries and 107 "konqi" entries; CONCLUSION KDE WINS; a few (SFW) images of the characters, from the site
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[โ€“] 125 points 5 months ago* (23 children)

Is it really most popular?

It's not more stable than plasma surely, at least when user does any customization.

Simplicity is questionable, unless simple means 'unlearn everything and do it our way'.

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  • [โ€“] 89 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    For a long time it was. KDE kind of exploded themselves back around version 4. GNOME made huge inroads while the KDE Dev team's got their shit sorted. Main DE to the flagship general user distribution etc. It's just a fact. And not gonna lie I still have fond memories of GNOME 2.

    But the KDE team really put their time in and cooked. It isn't perfect. But the over all polish shows. Not to mention its been snowballing lately. I have my whole family on plasma 6 right now. It's familiar as it needs to be, stable and mostly intuitive. It's just so good. In fact my only gripe right now is a niche Wayland issue and not DE related.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Meh, plasma was stable enough by 4.4 (when I've switched from gnome 2), there were some problems, but gnome 3 released about that time wasn't any better. I'm not sure about popularity of gnome, it was repeated a lot but personally I've met one person to this day that used vanilla gnome 3/4/5/50 not representative of course but it's just weird that supposedly everyone is running it yet among the category of people that linux is most popular with it doesn't show.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Gnome lost a lot of popularity with Gnome shell, and for good reason. Gnome made the same mistake Microsoft did with Windows 8, which was also universally hated. By the same mistake I mean they changed EVERYTHING!

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sure. But the first few releases unfortunately weren't. And you gotta be conscious of projecting your experiences onto others. I mean I sure do lol. Techy people don't mind experimenting and putting in a bit of work. But the normie's do. For nearly a decade Ubuntu and GNOME was what was recommended/used.

    Oh sure, there's kubuntu which isn't their flagship or similarly supported. So you would run into edge cases and lack of polish on the distro side. There was so much inertia for a while most major distros flagship was GNOME out of the box. Even if KDE, Mate, Budgie, or Cinnamon were avalible from repos or community maintained forks. Your vanilla user was always going to go with the defaults.

    I didn't like it and haven't touched gnome in years and Ubuntu even longer. But I'm definitely not a Normy.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, right, Ubuntu uses gnome
    I'm still stuck with unity in my head, because their gnome got modified to look that way - at least it was quite a few years ago, when I used it somewhere

    I also thought, that currently KDE is more popular

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 months ago

    It's picking up steam and could easily go that way. The GNOME team with their inflexibility is pushing many away. They even got pop to start their own DE. Because they were tired of writing addons that would break every few releases.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The recent evolution is great and I've been a happy KDE user for many years, but my oh my is NetworkManager bad. It's not good on all systems that use it under the hood, but I find it especially unintuitive and so outdated. The applet thing is fine (still suffers from weird behaviour from NM's core), but actual settings screen drives me crazy... The Bluetooth one should also receive some love, but it's decent. NM needs serious revision.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago

    Yes. There's definitely some UX jank in there. I saw something the other day at least about a new unified UX framework to replace the multiple ones they have now. Which hopefully should lead to much more consistency across applications and hopefully some updates and rewrites that will be better.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    yea, gnome is "more popular". doesn't mean it's "better", just that it's the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    yea, gnome is โ€œmore popularโ€. doesnโ€™t mean itโ€™s โ€œbetterโ€, just that itโ€™s the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.

    But not SteamOS which has the numbers on its side. Not that Gnome is unpopular but Steam Deck single-handedly pulled in millions of users who at least occasionally switch from game mode to desktop mode (=Plasma) to install emulators and stuff.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Iโ€™m not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

    Of course not, if you phrase it like that. According to your phrasing non-desktop container setups also count but they don't.

    Distributions like Ubuntu also ship Plasma. The preconfigured disk image is called Kubuntu but that's still Ubuntu and counts as that in Steam's surveys which I consider the most reliable source of what actual GUI Linux users actually use.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Couple things there are many computer users that don't play games like for example me.

    Enterprise Linux is not the same as a container and Gnome is flagship for all three of those enterprise flavors.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago

    Couple things there are many computer users that donโ€™t play games like for example me.

    And in which credible statistic are those?

    Enterprise Linux is not the same as a container

    Of course not but you didn't specifically say desktop-only Ubuntu/... installs and Ubuntu is still very popular in containers that never see any desktop. Ubuntu also ships Plasma, flagship DE or not.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 5 months ago

    Gnome is more stable in my experience. The base Gnome without any extensions is rock solid and just works without a hitch. Problem is that it's bland as hell and not very practical. Most of the popular extensions to make the DE are also pretty solid and reliable, as gnome's extension API doesn't really allow them to break anything in any spectacular way. Plasma allows better and more powerful extensions, but they also tend to have a bigger effect on the DE's stability.

    That said, I fucking hate how Gnome devs handle the extension API. Every update to Gnome disables all the extensions even if there's no breaking changes that would cause them to stop working. You gotta either manually edit their manifest files to trick Gnome into thinking they've been updated to the latest DE version, or you gotta wait for the devs to update. Every now and then they do release a breaking change that does break things too, and things get annoying. I used to maintain a relatively popular-ish, very simple Gnome extension. But eventually I got sick and abandoned because nobody's got time to deal with Gnome's extension API. I had to rewrite some basic shit for no good reason one too many times.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Forget opinions, just look at the most popular distros, which one do they ship with by default?

    I prefer Gnome's UX/UI, but I use KDE because they are faster to implement gaming related stuff.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure which are the most popular distros. Mint, Fedora, some arch derivative of the day?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)