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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:36:41 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>> I find GNOME rather clunky whereas KDE, at least on Fedora and Nobara,
>> is perfect out of the box. I imagine that a lot of people who try out
>> Linux and face GNOME are going to wonder how to do the basics, and they
>> will likely find that the way extensions work is rather clunky,
>> especially during upgrades. Meanwhile, KDE is very familiar and offers a
>> ton of features they could only dream of in Windows like the desktop
>> effects, theming options and widgets. Unlike Cinnamon too, the widgets
>> in KDE actually work as they should.
>
> The Ubuntu box has GNOME. I live with it but I'm not a fan. I'd rather
> have a menu structure rather than the 'Show Applications' button that
> brings up three or four screens of unsorted stuff.
>

I've been running XFCE for at least a decade and I for me it is a nice 
sweet spot of a more comprehensive desktop environment that is also fairly 
light on resources.

I do not use the menu system, but only a keyboard launcher instead.