Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast

Re:Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast by cheald on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:18PM (#21651013)

I'm not demeaning GNOME at all, I'm contrasting against it. GNOME is a great product, but I didn't like that its recent incarnations seem determined to smooth out the user experience by removing user choice. I tried out KDE (having used it long ago) and was very pleasantly surprised to find it both faster and more tweakable than GNOME. I'd expected tweakable, but the performance was unexpected. Plasma is a far cry from the KDE of old.

The GNOME project seems to have made a conscious decision to go for the consumer market, which usually cares more about things "just working" than their being tweakable. That's a good thing - that market needs to be served - but it's not what I wanted. A big part of the reason I run Linux is for detailed control of my user experience, and KDE is the better product in that regard for my use case.

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Re:Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast by 5Sgx2pChWKtUMc2 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:58PM (#21653019)

> OS X convert who isn't used to anything being customizable,

> KDE is an utter delight for everyone else

The way you frame it as OS X convert vs everyone else is kind of rude. I would say the hardcore Linux customizer is the minority, and everyone else prefers the easy to use out of the box UIs of OS X and Windows.

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Re:Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday November 28, 2019 @04:43AM (#21655869)

I'm a "hardcore Linux customizer" in many ways, but I'm also a happy Gnome user on my day-to-day development machine. I do love KDE but fiddling with it was distracting from my work.

To be fair, this probably says more about me than it does about either environment.

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