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I’m the same. I like the workflow of Plasma, I just find it more practical, but Gnome actually feels like an OS made this century. All the KDE software just feels like it was made in the early 00s and since then it’s just been getting hotfixes to keep it going. I wish they’d just abandon a bunch of their projects and stop spreading themselves so thin.

Wherefore?

The default theme could be better but you can customise a lot of it. Or you can wait for the current trend of rounded borders to end and KDE will be ahead of the curve.

What is the cause?

KDE has its origins in being ‘like Windows, but with way more shit to fiddle with’. And since Windows was never good about design, and other KDE predecessors like CDE looked even worse, KDE didn't have a good example from which to learn.

In contrast, Gnome 2 was very obviously inspired by MacOS, and Apple's designers actually knew about the principles of grouping and such basic design stuff that MS never properly learned. Apple spent ages on adjusting the looks of the apps, which I guess Gnome borrowed to some extent.

They feel unfinished. I like their apps, but their designs feel like mockups.

I hate that Qt6 dropped the Motif theme. You can get a Kvantum theme that's vaguely close, but it's different enough that you can tell the difference (the old one had deeper bevels) and I tend to prioritize Qt5 if I can use it.

Not exactly the same but just saw this in another thread: https://a.hollywood.computer/

Dex-UI and Edex-UI?

It's a UNIX system, I know this!

there's a few 3d file browsers. i remember there was one like Doom where you could walk around rooms (dirs) and shoot files to delete them

Not quite what you're asking, but xfce has a Chicago 95 mod to make it look like win95.

This is why when people tell me that Linux Mint is user-friendly, I usually assume they don't use it themselves.

Gnome 3 isn't ‘macified’. They've actually thrown away all the good stuff they stole from MacOS in Gnome 2, when they made Gnome 3 with its own blackjack and hookers.

Cinnamon, the desktop environment for Linux Mint.

You might think now that the meme is less important but it was my exact pathway as well.

Cinnamon.

As a KDE person who's got an 'ol reliable Mint machine, I'm really glad Cinnamon has fans. I do wish certain customization was a little easier maybe? But it really does "just work" while looking pretty enough and not being overly obtuse.

I love my KDE and it kicks butt right now, but I don't want to see everything converge on a single DE. I want them all to improve for the people who love them for their own reasons.

Cinny rocks.

One little task that I tried on several DE. Try to change the scroll speed in the file explorer (dolphin for kde)

I had no DE except KDE where I just could go into the settings and change the value.

Afaik for cinnamon I need to recompile the whole thing.

Plasma is great, it just has terrible defaults and there is no way to back up settings. I spend half an hour configuring Plasma in each install. I can't believe I'm saying this but as of Plasma 6 and its bug fixes, Plasma is much more polished than Cinnamon.

downvoted for literally having a harmless opinion, classic lemmy