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0 pointsphilliphaydon4y ago0 comments

I feel like people who use fedora swear by it. What DE do you use? I prefer KDE but donno if it’s time to retry gnome or something else.

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tux19684y ago

If you're moving to Fedora then Gnome really is the path of least resistance, and highest level of integration and support. But you can make KDE work, or even use a tiling WM like Sway and customize it to your taste. In any case, you get to enjoy the benefits of a really well done distro.

AnIdiotOnTheNet4y ago

> If you're moving to Fedora then Gnome really is the path of least resistance

Which is really the largest drawback by far that I've found. GNOME 4 is user-hostile garbage made by people who really really wish they were designing for tablets. It's practically useless without third-party extensions, which are of course unsupported. It doesn't even have a system tray FFS.

If Fedora Kinoite worked as well as Fedora Silverblue, I think I could be reasonably content. Immutable base system with Flatpak and Toolboxes is pretty close to how I actually want a system to work.

philliphaydonOP4y ago

Alright. Will give it another go. Hopefully it’s easier to setup a side bar and top bar than last time I used it.

anuragsoni4y ago

FWIW, I've used Fedora's KDE spin [1] and its very polished. That said, if I was still using linux on the desktop these days I'd go with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed[2]. With KDE my experience was that they made big improvements with every release, and tumbleweed was a nice way to get a stable-ish rolling release distribution that gets all the nice KDE updates without me having to wait another 6-8 months.

[1] https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/kde/

[2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

rubyist5eva4y ago

I'm coming from Ubuntu so I stuck with Gnome as that is the default recomendation for Fedora as well. I've tried KDE in the past and while I understand why lots of people like it it never really clicked with me.

But while we're on the topic of user hostility, I'm not really a fan of some of the changes the Gnome devs are doing either, so I may switch again in the future but at least for now I'm comfortable using it and they aren't outright antagonizing my system like Ubuntu does with snaps.

secondcoming4y ago

You can use both? I use Mint but also use QTCreator (KDE) for development.

Things like hiDPI support go funny, but that's just Linux for you.

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