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I love KDE, but as someone who exclusively uses KDE already I have little visibility into Gnome or any other alternatives really, and I’m a little surprised they aren’t defaulting to Gnome since that seems to be the default choice for many distros. Besides my personal feelings that it’s a bit ugly and very clunky to configure, anyone feel like ranting about the drawbacks of Gnome or other desktop environments so that I can feel educated and continue to justify their and my choice of KDE to myself? :)
KDE was always niche before, but my understanding is that Plasma5 is all the rage now, and more distros are defaulting to Plasma.
As someone who still remembers when Plasma4 was announced it feels really nice to see just how little KDE has changed over the past two decades - all changes are pretty much optimizations and stability fixes. Goes to show how well-thought-out the vision for Plasma was from the start.
I’m in the same boat, I think Gnome being the default in some distros is mostly because of historical reasons, perhaps similar to how Ubuntu used be good
Well deserved!