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This Week in Plasma: Everything You Wanted and More
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KDE is rock solid on my device, unlike Gnome. What do you mean by that exactly?
KDE has never been stable for me. I can find a bug within 10 minutes if I search properly. On the other hand, GNOME is stable for me as long as I don't use sus extensions.
EDIT: just create a very wide vertical panel and try to move a clock widget in and out of it. Sometimes it'll just disappear and often it will crash Plasma.
Yes, it has bugs still, specially for widgets and stuff like that. But it's very stable if you don't mess around with those things and just use it.
I personally don't consider it stability at all. I guess everyone has a different definition of it.
GNOME is rock solid on my device, unlike KDE. What do you mean by that exactly?
Gnome likes to remove important APIs from time to time which leads to extensions being broken for an awfull long time after an update and also has all sorts of issues with QT apps, simply because Gnome devs do not want to bother with things they consider not important.
What's your issue with KDE?
EDIT: Typos.
i can chime in with some actual experience!
my current problems with KDE are
and what's fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i'm going to get on a given day!
I really appreciate the work and time the volunteer devs put in, but everytime I try KDE I have to give up because of some workflow breaking bug. Window rules disappearing into thin air, context menu's not rendering properly, power management not consistent, widget search freezing, random crashes. the list goes on. This has been the case with every major KDE release I tried and yes I have reported my fair share of bugs but it seems the priority lies with adding new features instead of fixing old ones which is a shame imo.
I also had bugs around window rules to be honest.
the window rules one really fucks me up.
It stopped working at the beginning of the year for me and nobody gave a shit about the bug reports.
Now I have to keep juggling windows and their sizes every day like a caveman.
I only get a couple of problems.
But then, I'm not running a stock plasma, I have a few add-ons compiled from source and a few widgets downloaded from the get new things. One of those could be causing the crash but I haven't proved that yet. I'm fairly sure the panel is a plasma bug.
Edit: Oh and sorting pinned icons in the icons only taskbar is a real pain in wayland.
Edit 2: It seems the sorting has been fixed since I last did it ~~and I haven't had the crash since the last plasma update~~
Oh that’s an actually insightful answer! Thank you!
I don’t really have any issue with KDE, I’ve actually barely used it at all, I was merely trolling. It’s juste the “a lot of functionality at the expense of simplicity “ that doesn’t speaks to me in general. I understand the criticism against GNOME, however I got to really appreciate the effort they are putting in simplicity and integration. Once you get used to do things “the gnome way” , it’s really comfortable imo. I guess the same goes for any DE or WM.
I use Aeon btw, so of course I’m all in for using vanilla gnome!