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my new experiences with KDE Plasma and GNOME! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by scheep@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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I haven’t tried Linux in a while and only really played around with XFCE and Cinnamon and reviving my old laptops, but I’ve just tried KDE Plasma and GNOME for a bit and DAMN they look good. Modern looking and not the weird Mica effect that Windows has. Very clean!

They both look great and I wouldn’t say one looks better than the other, just preference probably, just that GNOME looks more bubbly + rounded + bit like MacOS in a good way and Plasma looks more blocky + similar to Win10 taskbar

The touchscreen buts still appear to need a bit of work, on both Plasma and GNOME I made it freeze. For Plasma I opened the launcher button and tried to use the onscreen keyboard, and it kept on opening and closing very quickly, for GNOME I did the three finger swipe up gesture and everything became unresponsive. Also, Bluetooth weirdly doesn’t work on KDE but does on GNOME. Huh. Maybe just my device?

I really want to switch soon, maybe during the holidays I’ll get round to it :D

edit: I think it’s pretty crazy that a relatively small team (compared to the likes of Microsoft) can offer such a good UI and overall user experience! That’s insane! The people who help make the distros are doing very good work and I wish them the best of luck! Hopefully the weird quirks and compatibility issues will iron out and Linux becomes mainsteam :D

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[–] scheep@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ahh that’s why. Okay gotcha that makes sense. If I do switch, I’ll probably test both a bit more to see which I like using the best. I just booted the live usb and played around for a bit, testing things like touchscreen support and auto-rotate

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Auto-rotate probably won't work because it seems like the acceleramoter isn't supported by the kernel, but if you really wanted to debug it, run monitor-sensor and rotate your laptop around. If you see the numbers change, it means your hardware is supported and you might just need a package (although it''s also possible that Gnome and KDE don't support it).

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think it might not be supported. My device is an Asus Zenbook 14 Flip so might not be supported compared to something like a lenovo yoga or the tuxedo flip.