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[–] luxliminal@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Steam Deck made me fall back in love with KDE, and it's what I use with Arch on my desktop now. Second favorite is probably Cinnamon.

Try as I might I just can't with Gnome.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The nice thing about GNOME is that you immediately get it, on a fundamental level that is. The not so nice thing is that lots of stuff is an add-on, and it's entirely possible installing the wrong one will brick your desktop

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I disagree that Gnome is intuitive on a fundamental level. They're trying the Apple way of UI design without the millions in R&D.

[–] luxliminal@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

I get it, but maybe the same way I get driving on the other side of the road, or writing with my non-dominant hand: I can do it, and maybe I could get used to it or even be efficient with it, but it's unfamiliar and far from being second nature to me.

I always feel gnome is more fitting for laptop or tablet. KDE on my desktop.

Just seem to be different use cases.