Hello all!
Currently looking at installing Manjaro for my Linux OS as my current Kubuntu 18.04 has some unwanted side-effects that I can hopefully start negating. I’ve been using KDE but kinda might want to try a different DE?
Questions:
What are your favourite DE(s) that you like to use? What do you like/dislike about it? What was a major selling point for you when choosing your DE?
I’m currently using KDE and have not really had much experience with others outside of Cinnamon(?) for simple home server that I setup and never look at.
KDE Likes:
- I find it suits the aesthetic that I quite appreciate (dark themes ftw).
- I like the application launcher window popup which is one of the few things that I appreciate in Windows as I use it to quick find/launch applications with the search function.
- Apart from some GTK applications everything else seems to be behaving fairly well - windows are snappy.
- I really like the window icons (maximise, minimise, close, etc.) in the breeze-dark theme.
KDE Dislikes:
- I do find it a little finicky with the keyboard shortcuts for window management - I would love to be able to get it to do window snapping like in Windows 10 but have not really found a way to do this with KWin.
- Running applications with the icons in the corner of the system tray have blurry icons. Not sure why. It doesn’t happen with the system icons that are nice and crisp. Applications: PIA VPN, Slack.
- The dark-themed windows with the same background colour blend into each other (mostly because I’m lazy and I haven’t looked into a way for window borders to be a thing).
- Holy shit those settings menus…
KDE Selling Points:
- It has a lot of flexibility in the overall aesthetic.
- It has a lot of features that I like in Windows 10 without being super windows-y.
- It runs nicely on my hardware.
- I got recommended it by a friend a number of years ago before I ran Linux, and so gravitated towards it when I started using Linux for the sense of familiarity.