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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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[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

I've used both pretty extensively (years daily driving each) but these days I just use stock KDE, with maybe a couple little adjustments to the taskbar. I like both. I can adapt to different desktop workflows, GNOME's is good, but I found myself always using plugins to make it work more like a windows desktop. I generally like the KDE suite of default applications a lot more than GNOME's, like Dolphin is just a better file manager than nautilus. And if I'm going to use KDE applications and a windows-styled desktop layout, at that point I might as well just use KDE.