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Gonna give a quick counterpoint as someone who has used everything from Enlightenment WM to Windows 3.1, to Irix and who now uses GNOME:

I flipped over to Plasma the other day to see if I was missing out and I am not. Plasma felt unrefined and cluttered and seemed overly influenced by Windows. I switched back.

I will probably check it out again if they continue to make progress, but I, for one, prefer GNOME.

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LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Gnome is either a you love it as it is or you just hate it there is no in between because there’s no customizability. I love KDE plasma because of all its million options that usually put gnome users off. I don’t want my desktop to be exactly like everyone else’s I have a particular way I want things laid out a particular spot I want options particular things I want shown particular things I don’t want shown.

The lack of notification app tray on gnome alone puts me off, the full screen app drawer is another. I don’t want that on my desktop it’s not a tablet. I don’t find it enjoyable to use on my large desktop screen with a mouse.

On KDE, if I don’t like something with the default configuration there’s a 95% chance that I can change it to something that I would like. On gnome i get to either pound sand or install an extension that will probably break on the next update.

And that’s fine we don’t have to agree with one another that’s the glory of Linux and user choice

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- andyburke@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I prefaced my response by saying it was a counterpoint.
  
  🤷‍♂️
  
  When searching for "winver" it will now show the "About this System" page in Plasma 6.6.
  
  I will just offer this as evidence that Plasma seems targeted at a different user base than what I belong to. Others can decide for themselves what they're looking for.
  
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  - LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I never said it wasn’t a counterpoint, I never said it was wrong, I was just responding to your feeling that it’s cluttered and unfocused. Those are the very aspects that make me enjoy it and are the reason I don’t really like gnome. Focused only works if you happen to agree with the focus that was chosen and I’m very glad that the chosen one of gnome works for you.
    
    But that freedom flexibility that comes with the unfocused nature of plasma is exactly what makes me love it. You are correct that it is absolutely attempting to cater to Windows users in its default configuration the idea is for it to be a simple close to Windows default so that they can more easily acclimate themselves to a different operating system. It’s why it’s so often recommended to people who are switching trying to put them on gnome where literally nothing works like what they are used to is setting them up for failure in many cases.
    
    But it then also gives you the power to customize once you are more comfortable to the point that you can just basically practically make a gnome workflow clone if you wanted. Or OSX, tiled, whatever you want really. But it is true that that means there’s no really unified workflow within plasma so I can see how it looks cluttered and unfocused
    
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