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I cannot even begin to describe what a dumb take this is. I really hope i's satire
*he says as GNOME is literally THE desktop to go against EVERY OTHER DESKTOP on Wayland issues and to keep on delaying major fixes further for bullshit reasons. Delaying or not adding features users want, for ideological reasons is the exact reason that Wayland is still not ready even though development started in 2008.
"KDE is for kids"
No, KDE is for people who want a desktop which is "Simple by default, powerful when needed". Or people who simply prefer it.
I also like how you compare DE performance and decide KDE is worse than Gnome? Like what? Are you stuck on KDE4?
5.3 and 5.6 are both ancient :/
I've been running KDE for years.
On a:
Thinkpad T400 (2009, 2.3GHz dual core)
Toshiba Satellite (2009, 1.2(?)GHz single core)
HP Pavilion (unknown year, model, clock speed)
Framework 13 (2020, 4.9GHz hexa core)
AMD A10-7700K desktop (3.4GHz quad core)
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (3.6GHZ quad core)
With the compositor enabled.
These all ran it smoothly. The only slow part was the loading on some of these machines.
And KDE is absolutely usable by default, it resembles a Windows desktop.
KDE Plasma 5.6 is from 2016, genius. It is very old.
5.27 is the current version Debian is on.
And I've run KDE Plasma on a lot of hardware, a lot of it very old, and it's been fine, if with slightly slow loading times (I daily drove that single-core potato I mentioned for about a year on Plasma).
I'm very sorry it felt sluggish for you but that's likely down to your specific hardware configuration, drivers, GPU vendor + display server combo, etc. Plasma is not that bad for most people. You just got unlucky.
EDIT: Actually, if you actually somehow installed 5.6 on modern Debian with modern Qt frameworks etc, that could be why it was so slow. Could have been a fucked install.
An integrated GPU isn't great, but it should run alright still. I think I disabled the dedicated GPU on the Thinkpad I was running and it still ran smoothly.
I don't know what your circumstances were with your specific laptop, but to paint KDE as, well, shit, just because it ran badly when you tried it is not cool. Especially in the face of other people who have had fine performance on the slowest of potatoes.
Maybe your CPU's iGPU is a poor bin, maybe you ran up against a bug in something which fucked performance, maybe your HDD was failing or just slow (if it was mechanical), who knows? Point is your one laptop is not representative of all laptops.
Display server = Xorg/Wayland, not the monitor...
Is there any particular reason you felt the need to resort to insults? I like KDE for a reason, because it does what I want and it runs well. I'm not blindly devoted to it like it's some kind of religion. Hell, I actually prefer GTK as a library over Qt due to it's C-based nature and I used to daily drive Cinnamon, then MATE.
KDE release nomenclature is also easy. Higher number = newer.
I... know the Plasma 6 release is new? Why is that relevant? We're both talking about Plasma 5, and Plasma 6 is basically just mega-improved Plasma 5 anyways.
You know what, if you want, tomorrow I'll get you a video of Plasma running on my single core 1GHz potato laptop if you like.
Uh huh. No fanboying on your part at all. Projection?
Once again, I will send you a video later today of KDE plasma running on my 1GHz single core potato (a much slower CPU than yours) to prove that Plasma can perform. Hey, maybe I'll also run GNOME on it for you for comparison purposes. Note that I don't inherently have a problem with GNOME, as I don't have the mentality that "KDE is for KGrownups".
Because I feel like with childish statements like the one above, you're not exactly being 100% truthful. But I can back up my argument with evidence.
KDE Plasma on a laptop whose hardware was crap when it came out in 2009, running fine:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/R5SPEKY1VG#yzKAoNQxSjXc
GNOME, slightly sluggish:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/7JD8899CH8#NlXG8uZpm0Cd
Also just checked out your "computing guide" (which is just a loose collection of info and recommendations more than a guide), and lol'd at this paragraph [brackets mine]:
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Gnome does break extensions from time to time. They extension developers just fix it.
Gnome is not a good fit for everyone. KDE is good for people who want high levels of customization and Xfce4 is good for people who want a simple configurable desktop.
There is also gnome soft forks like Cinnamon that try to create a Win 7 feel. My point is Gnome is good for me and others but it doesn't work for everyone. To say it is the only option is wrong.
Pano clipboard broke
Gnome 43 is old at this point. That's why nothing breaks.
The only time extensions break is when the release is very new or when an extension is not maintained
If anyone is circle jerking it is you. KDE and gnome fit two different use cases.
(This comment is was made to be ironic)
I think its really about wanting to just get things done instead of fixing/encountering bugs like sleep/back screen. KDE should review their priorities. But I guess its coming, you cant add new features at infinitum.