A picture of Lara Croft in new Tomb Raider hand in hand with Lara Croft from the old Tomb raider Series. The new one labeled GNOME and the old one KDE.

  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Or… Gnome works perfectly for people with different workflows and KDE by default is bloated…

    Maybe we can agree both are just good?

    • havokdj@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Plasma itself isn’t bloated, it is only bloated if you install the entire suite of KDE applications. Installing plasma by itself doesn’t require that many dependencies.

      GNOME has a similar level of optionals for their desktop environment as well, you’re just expected to actually INSTALL them.

    • Is it? Gnome loads in a ton of services and feels pretty bloated to me. I don’t notice that it’s any lighter than KDE, and it often feels more sluggish.

      But, they’re both desktops and are loading in a bunch of stuff whether you use it or not, so you’re right that they’re pretty comparable.

      • HKayn@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Bro offered a truce, why not take it?

        Plasma and GNOME both have legitimate uses, no one is objectively better than the other.

        • First, I wasn’t the person “bro” responded to.

          Second, they said Gnome works fine and KDE is bloated by default, implying Gnome isn’t bloated. Which it certainly is, which I said.

          A person can’t just say, “you’re ugly as fuck, but let’s just agree to disagree” and have it be a truce.

          • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            Let me put this here so it’s more easily understood- /s

            I was being sarcastic to make a point. They are both fine and it’s good that people have choice.

    • happyhippo@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      KDE uses less RAM, you can fact check quite easily.

      Depending on the distro it ships with more or less stuff, but a few games, an office suite, media players for audio/video and in some cases a partition manager, are all necessary tools in any setup, at least in my book.

      I don’t see the bloat.