Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency via the Sovereign Tech Fund announced over €1 million in funding for KDE to work on the Plasma desktop, KDE Linux and more.
  • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I love KDE, but as someone who exclusively uses KDE already I have little visibility into Gnome or any other alternatives really, and I’m a little surprised they aren’t defaulting to Gnome since that seems to be the default choice for many distros. Besides my personal feelings that it’s a bit ugly and very clunky to configure, anyone feel like ranting about the drawbacks of Gnome or other desktop environments so that I can feel educated and continue to justify their and my choice of KDE to myself? :)

    • mirshafie@europe.pub
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      4 days ago

      KDE was always niche before, but my understanding is that Plasma5 is all the rage now, and more distros are defaulting to Plasma.

      As someone who still remembers when Plasma4 was announced it feels really nice to see just how little KDE has changed over the past two decades - all changes are pretty much optimizations and stability fixes. Goes to show how well-thought-out the vision for Plasma was from the start.

    • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I don’t use gnome or KDE, I use i3 or sway and then I install a file manager and then I use drun or a drun like program to launch applications

      no kde bloat, no gnome bloat, a desktop with a status bar (no desktop icons) and that’s it

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 days ago

      Nothing wrong with Gnome, it’s very good in my book. It’s simple so you can recommend it to a non-tech friend (who does not expect things to look like Windows). Yet it’s powerful enough so you can use it as a power user quite efficiently. KDE is just much more options, if you need them. Not everyone needs, so I think both are welcome to advance and be actively developed.

    • Holla@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      I’m in the same boat, I think Gnome being the default in some distros is mostly because of historical reasons, perhaps similar to how Ubuntu used be good

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Historical, but static because the existing user base is used to how gnome works. At least most big distros let you use whichever you prefer

  • bobbino@lemmychan.org
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    4 days ago

    Extremely based. Glad to see governments funding free software, and KDE is a wonderful, practical choice.