I spent a few minutes setting up a Plasma desktop to resemble what I like about GNOME Shell. A screenshot doesn’t do it justice imho. Application Dashboard on Meta, Overview on Meta-W, a Panel and Icons-Only Task Manager set to Autohide at the bottom of each screen, and the Tiling Manager.

  • astrsk@kbin.run
    9·
    4 months ago

    As much as I love a good light weight DE like XFCE, KDE plasma has been the best experience on multiple distros including Debian and Arch. It’s the closest thing to an accessible windows-like experience with all the customization you wish you had in windows with so many applets and widgets that fill in so many gaps in other DEs.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      4 months ago

      KDE isn’t much heavier than XFCE. On a modern computer, the difference is indiscernible.

      • ahornsirup@feddit.org
        3·
        4 months ago

        No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I’ve not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).

        • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          My computers are pretty new. It’s the small things that really eat at you though.

          Glad I switched even with the teething pains with Nvidia and wayland. I can always fallback on x11 until the bug is squashed. Always new little problems popping up like Nvidia isn’t really tested well on the Wayland side.

  • Visikde@lemmy.kde.social
    1·
    4 months ago

    I’ve used KDE for more than a decade
    Not just the desktop but the Ksuite of programs
    Being able to setup a nice custom tool bar
    Auto hide panels of a size that my decaying eyes can read
    Doing update without having to troubleshoot afterwards :D