It’s in the eye of the beholder, of course. But it would be great to see some solid recommendations.

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        Absolutely. GNOME often looks better, but it just doesnt work. Basic things everywhere are removed or not added.

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            So you mean…

            • editing images (in the viewer, screenshot tool)
            • being allowed to customize the UI of any app
            • changing the login screen (gdm) background
            • creating a textfile from the filemanager
            • editing .desktop entries graphically

            ?

            Hahaha, I disagree

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              Yea, none of those things matter to me.

              Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had plenty of fun customizing DEs but I don’t really need that on my daily driver. I also have more of a terminal based workflow so perhaps shell customization scratches that itch for me.

              To each their own :)

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                This is not about customizing. What app do you use for editing images, or dont you do this at all?

                On GNOME either using Gwenview (KDE) or GIMP, Krita, Kolourpaint, Pinta would work. Which are all very big programs.

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                  Sometimes I use Drawing for adding some annotations but I mostly just paste directly from the screenshot tool.

                  In terms of editing, I work more with SVG where I use a very simple editor BoxySVG.

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          I have given in to GNOME. Set dark mode, install the extension “Tactile” and never touch the setting again.

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          The thing I’ve learned in the many years of watching this fight is that the things Gnome people (of which I am one, though I have immense respect and appreciation for the KDE project) don’t like about KDE tend to be the things KDE people like about KDE and vice versa.

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            These projects are almost diametrically opposite. GNOME tries to provide a very simple, solid but not very configurable desktop with good accessibility and stability while KDE tries to make a very configurable and powerful environment that can be customized to anyone’s needs. I don’t like KDE because it’s unstable, way too powerful for my personal needs (their “simple by default; powerful when needed” concept doesn’t really work) and I just don’t like the UI. Though KDE’s better performance is an objective advantage.

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              I tend to agree. I mean, the gnome workflow is more appealing to me (though I have since moved to a WM), but my dislike of KDE comes down to (a) too many options everywhere and (b) it looks too “sharp”. If KDE had an “I’m done fiddling” mode that hid most of the options and I found a softer theme, I’d probably like it fine.

              Absolutely nothing I just said should take away from others’ preference for KDE. I’m glad we can like what we like.

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              It seems to still be strongly gnome-adjacent, which fits with the softer, “calmer” aesthetic Pop has, but with functional tweaks that are more aligned with Win11/KDE (absolutely intended as a positive statement, as far as moving the ball forward on UX design). I worry that team KDE won’t like the “sane defaults” simplicity that it appears to have inherited from the gnome days, but that might just be the part of me that experiences terminal choice paralysis every time I fire up KDE. :)