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A question for GNOME/KDE users (piefed.world)
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For people who already tried both, what's the reason you're sticking with GNOME or KDE as your desktop environment?

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[–] throwaway403@programming.dev 4 points 7 hours ago

A couple of years ago, I used both of them briefly and GNOME simply provided the more polished experience back then.

In time, I came to dislike the look/design of KDE apps.

So when the time came I wanted to ditch GNOME because I was sick of its extensions ecosystem, I didn't even consider KDE Plasma. Instead, I tried out Sway and eventually settled on COSMIC.