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It comes down to this, the heavyweight desktop championship between two powers in the Linux world.

In the blue corner, we have the mighty KDE, KDE comes with a wealth of customization options and good features with every update. It serves a nice alternative to windows 10 or 11s desktop and itself as an OS.

KDE has got so good that even legendary distro, Fedora, wishes to use it in its dealings.

In the grey/black corner, we have GNOME, This is a heavy distro with some ram usage, but it strives to be a simple desktop for usage and has had some good features every new version it comes packaged in as well.

GNOME has had a long history much like KDE, But controversial changes from its older brother.

However… big name distros like Ubuntu have used it across millions of machines in different sectors.

What desktop do you favour and why? Explain your thoughts.

Round 2… GO!

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  • GolfNovemberUniform
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    1 month ago

    I meant reliability. It’s bad if you use ANY feature besides virtual desktops and app opening. In my understanding “stability” is stability of ALL features of the program, no matter how rarely they’re used.

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      It really isn’t, at least in my experience. And I have an Nvidia card!

      All software beyond a moderate complexity has bugs.

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        It really isn’t, at least in my experience. And I have an Nvidia card!

        Oh then it makes sense why you argued. However it’s important to keep in mind that experience can vary among users. For example, in my case Plasma was very unstable on an Intel iGPU.

        All software beyond a moderate complexity has bugs.

        Not an excuse tbh.

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          Not an excuse tbh.

          The thing to do is participate in the beta programs and report any bugs you find, as you’re having so much instability you would be an ideal participant whereas me with my smooth running wouldn’t.

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          You didn’t mention KDE’s lack of any adequate stability. That’s what makes it incomparable to Gnome.

          But then also:

          However it’s important to keep in mind that experience can vary among users.

          Oh the irony.

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        It really isn’t, at least in my experience

        works in my machine is an opinion not an argument. Different people have different expectations and experiences.

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          Doesn’t work on my machine is an opinion not an argument. Different people have different expectations and experiences.