As discussed earlier on HN, KDE these days has been the most usable desktop for many users. It is mostly stable, feature rich and can be customized easily.
Yes, fuly agree. And enough time has passed with it being robust and performant that the old bores who used to go on about KDE performance have finally given up bleeting on about that.
I wouldn't bash GNOME as clearly plenty of work goes into it and having two decent DE is good for the ecosystem, but for me GNOME never struck a chord compared to the elegance of KDE - it just feels like the Duplo version compared to KDE
This was good to read, thanks. Last experience with KDE is probably almost 30 years ago when it was so sluggish I quickly gave up on it. With Gnome being _the default_ in some sense given Ubuntu's control of desktop Linux, it never even came to mind to give kubuntu a try, I think I will.
Alright, I tried KDE again - and it's really good. Seems like Chrome-in-Wayland problem I had before is resolved now. And otherwise KDE accumulated all the goodies one should expect from DE over years.
I tried KDE on several different occasions this year, and each time the bottom panel froze on me when trying to configure it, usually within the first minute or two. It felt a bit like I was still using KDE4 when it was first released.
I think I've had some panel hangs up until a couple of months ago. It was usually some tray plugin (happened after particular changes in the network or sound system configuration) or multi-screen configuration change related. In any case, the workaround for a hanging or spazzed out desktop shell is: open krunner (it's a different process, should still work) and run plasmashell --replace.
