A picture of Lara Croft in new Tomb Raider hand in hand with Lara Croft from the old Tomb raider Series. The new one labeled GNOME and the old one KDE.

  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Or… Gnome works perfectly for people with different workflows and KDE by default is bloated…

    Maybe we can agree both are just good?

    • havokdj@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Plasma itself isn’t bloated, it is only bloated if you install the entire suite of KDE applications. Installing plasma by itself doesn’t require that many dependencies.

      GNOME has a similar level of optionals for their desktop environment as well, you’re just expected to actually INSTALL them.

    • Is it? Gnome loads in a ton of services and feels pretty bloated to me. I don’t notice that it’s any lighter than KDE, and it often feels more sluggish.

      But, they’re both desktops and are loading in a bunch of stuff whether you use it or not, so you’re right that they’re pretty comparable.

    • happyhippo@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      KDE uses less RAM, you can fact check quite easily.

      Depending on the distro it ships with more or less stuff, but a few games, an office suite, media players for audio/video and in some cases a partition manager, are all necessary tools in any setup, at least in my book.

      I don’t see the bloat.