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It comes down to this, the heavyweight desktop championship between two powers in the Linux world.

In the blue corner, we have the mighty KDE, KDE comes with a wealth of customization options and good features with every update. It serves a nice alternative to windows 10 or 11s desktop and itself as an OS.

KDE has got so good that even legendary distro, Fedora, wishes to use it in its dealings.

In the grey/black corner, we have GNOME, This is a heavy distro with some ram usage, but it strives to be a simple desktop for usage and has had some good features every new version it comes packaged in as well.

GNOME has had a long history much like KDE, But controversial changes from its older brother.

However… big name distros like Ubuntu have used it across millions of machines in different sectors.

What desktop do you favour and why? Explain your thoughts.

Round 2… GO!

Ding

  • superkret
    1·
    3 hours ago

    My favorite is a really minimal Gnome on Debian:

    • Launch Debian Expert Installer
    • Deselect all software packs except “Standard Sytem Utilities”
    • Install and reboot
    • Install cups, flatpak, fonts-recommended, gdm3 (this pulls in Gnome), gnome-console, nautilus, network-manager-gnome
    • Uninstall gnome-browser-connector, gnome-shell-extension-prefs, im-config, yelp (which were pulled in as recommendations)
    • Remove configured network interface from /etc/network/interfaces and reboot

    This gives me a Gnome shell with no visible GUI apps in the menu, except for the settings, terminal, file manager and network manager.
    Now I fill up my hard drive with FlatPaks ;)

    I prefer Gnome cause it has fewer options, the overview works really well on a notebook with touchpad, and I like that it is more unique.

    What I hate about it is the “depression dark grey with medium grey as highlight color” theme in dark mode.
    And in light mode you get “blinding white with medium grey as highlight color”.

    Give me some fucking color for fucks sake!