Konqi nooooo π
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Did the Gnome people ever figure out how to put icons on the desktop yet?
There's an extension that lets you do that. Once a week it breaks and makes icons appear over other windows.
That sums up my experience with Ubuntu Gnome.
Why can't they just fuck?
wilbur and konqi?
I really don't want online accounts integration in my DE though. I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.
I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.
In theory the one place where you can enter your Nextcloud or whatever credentials and syncing for calendar, mails, file storage ect. happens automatically everywhere after confirming which services should connect.
It's not my personal must have feature but when it works, it's alright.
Both of them have this
I like Gnome. I like KDE, too. I actually think they're both great, in their own ways, but I personally prefer Gnome.
I've only used KDE until recently because it's pretty familiar feeling after coming from windows, but my wife recently put gnome on her laptop and she loves it. I've used it a bit, and besides just being unfamiliar I do actually like it.
I use KDE on desktop and Gnome with a bunch of extensions on laptop because it has good touchscreen support
Well, you are wrong. You prefer KDE you just don't know it yet
We all know that the real MVP is Xenia
Is it really most popular?
It's not more stable than plasma surely, at least when user does any customization.
Simplicity is questionable, unless simple means 'unlearn everything and do it our way'.
Forget opinions, just look at the most popular distros, which one do they ship with by default?
I prefer Gnome's UX/UI, but I use KDE because they are faster to implement gaming related stuff.
For a long time it was. KDE kind of exploded themselves back around version 4. GNOME made huge inroads while the KDE Dev team's got their shit sorted. Main DE to the flagship general user distribution etc. It's just a fact. And not gonna lie I still have fond memories of GNOME 2.
But the KDE team really put their time in and cooked. It isn't perfect. But the over all polish shows. Not to mention its been snowballing lately. I have my whole family on plasma 6 right now. It's familiar as it needs to be, stable and mostly intuitive. It's just so good. In fact my only gripe right now is a niche Wayland issue and not DE related.
The recent evolution is great and I've been a happy KDE user for many years, but my oh my is NetworkManager bad. It's not good on all systems that use it under the hood, but I find it especially unintuitive and so outdated. The applet thing is fine (still suffers from weird behaviour from NM's core), but actual settings screen drives me crazy... The Bluetooth one should also receive some love, but it's decent. NM needs serious revision.
I just randomly tried KDE recently and made the swap from Linux Mint to Kubuntu a week ago. Definitely agree on the polish factor, everything just feels great with KDE and I've been pretty happy
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yea, gnome is "more popular". doesn't mean it's "better", just that it's the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.
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Konklusion was right there.
I kame here to say this!
You're not only the one who kame according to those numbers.
Do the results for foot_fetish apply to gnome?
This must be about Gnome 2.8 when Gnome indeed was by far the most popular desktop environment on Linux.
And then Gnome 2.8 was deprecated and no longer maintained, and for years after Gnome Shell was complete and utter shit.
IMO it still is, because they have changed fundamentals like how virtual desktops work, that disrupt my workflow.
I agree Gnome is more elegant, but that's irrelevant when key fundamentals simply don't work anymore.
So to get the desktop I like to actually use, I use KDE instead.
Edit: Final release was 2.32 as u/esc correctly writes below.
Last version of gnome 2 was 2.32, I think, not 2.8.
You are right, I just remember it as using 2.8 for an extended period of time. But looking it up, 2.8 was a milestone from 2004, and 2.32 was the final release.
I switched to Linux as my main OS in 2005. So I probably started on 2.8.
"most popular"
"stable"
LOL
Heh. My Linux started with Ubuntu like many others. I appreciated GNOME.
Then I got confident enough to distro hop and with that cam DE hop. Can't deny KCD is just so much better for the kind of user I am.
It's just kinda nice having your computer do what you want it to do, ya know?
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In case you're wondering, there are 31 explicit entries that has Konqi tag on e621.
I was going to mention that there's probably a lot of people who don't know what e621 is, but then I remembered what community I was in.
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