KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME

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KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME

Interview KDE Plasma is a Linux desktop which has just been updated to 5.20 - but why should users consider it instead of GNOME, the default for Ubuntu and Red Hat, or the lightweight Xfce? We spoke to Plasma maintainers David Edmundson and Jonathan Riddell.

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Nice article. I am interested what Plasma will hold. At the moment I prefer the direction and apps the KDE team is creating over Gnome which just remove things like System Tray.

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I guess I’m the wrong audience for this. I can’t think of anything beyond “try to use Gnome!!” as a way to push KDE. Gnome does everything different to how I want to work. I hated Metro on Windows, I still hate it that it’s been renamed Gnome. I don’t personally understand how anyone can consider Gnome to be usable it’s that bad for me.

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I am a KDE fan since Plasma, but before that I was strictly Gnome. Even though Gnome feels more restrictive, it has some nice apps that even beat-out KDE’s efforts, like Evolution. KDE’s Konnect/Kmail/Kontact PIM system should just be gutted and replaced. However, Gnome’s system tray is almost useless, along with the locked-down taskbar. It makes my head explode :exploding_head:, and caused me to finally switch over to KDE. I think if Gnome replaced it, I might have a hard time deciding distro to use, maybe :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:.

And I hated Gnome before. Oh My :rofl: :rofl:

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You can get it with a extension, but I think it should be there by default. I do like GNOME, but some choices I don’t.

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good article :+1: Never been fan and never will be but that what linux about " choice " :+1:
:pray: for post article …

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