For me, Plasma works better with external display (on nvidia+wayland). I also like their approach with maximum flexibility. Gnome feels for me like something made by Apple fans who are afraid to admit they are, and if I want Apple system i just use Mac.
Gnome devs think that best options are default and maybe there shouldn’t be options for some things at all, but I believe you can’t build this way a system/DE which will be comfortable for all users. For example, I love hot corners and use them in Plasma and Mac, but Gnome’s options out of box are quite limited. Sure, there’s probably an extension to fix this and other things too, but isn’t that going against the principle of having as less settings as possible because defaults are the best?
By default, yes, gnome are tablet first, unless you really modify it.I got it down to 5 extensions, but only 3 would be truly needed. If they fixed tray, then only 2 to have the experience I look for.
I didnt noticed any difference using 100% on both.
Gnome works well with multi monitors in the most parts.
I prefer gnome modified when regarding workflow, not gaming related.
If they add the new features the future, there is no reason for KDE in my point of view.
Another and only DE to consider would be cosmic when it releases if it comes with the features.
I’ve been trying out more KDE, and after many more modifications, it’s in a decent state too at this point, (less windows like), but the menu app still would need a different set of modification to get what I wanted as it is not very flexible there, just as in gnome which require extensions.
I didnt test X11 on Gnome, but on KDE with the proper settings, resolved all gaming issue that are present in Wayland. Results are way higher fps like 100+ in a mp game, gsync can be disabled, vblank can be disabled, and less latency, and more stable frametime.
It had the same or better results I had previously in a very optimized windows 10/11.
Well I had a bad experience with Ubuntu 24.10 / Gnome 47. I try to login and the password seems fine, get a grey screen and back to Login screen. So I had to make a 2nd account and it works. This should never happen and I got very upset. But Gnome is a bit better, but the Gnome extensions can break and I think that is what happened when I upgraded from Ubuntu 24.04 to 24.10. Most apps worked fine with Ubuntu/Gnome and a decent distro too. But I wanted to try something different and see how it goes.
I have recently installed CachyOS with KDE Plasma; and I like it so far, just I am not too familiar with it.
I tried a compiling a raylib wayland example, which uses GLFW and the app window had a scale glitch. I had to change the Display Configs to 100% scale and now works fine; I figured that out today.
Always and only XFCE, distro without that is not for me.
Gnome is very archaic when it comes to customization and KDE is similar to window$ in looks and bugs!
Well KDE Plasma 6.2.4 is working pretty good except one problem; wifi hotspots.
I can’t seem to connect from my galaxy s22 to my desktop wifi hotspot. On the phone the wifi hotspot ssid name shows up but when I try to connect it just disconnects; I made sure the passwords were right.
I still can’t get a wifi hotspot to work with CachyOS / KDE Plasma on desktop which has internet connection lan line but a free wifif for the hotspot; I successfully created a wifi hotspot then I try to use my Galaxy S22 phone to connect it shows up but then it has trouble connecting. I even tried to create a hotspot with $ nmcli.
In the Network Manager gui; I have accesspoint, wifi shared, use wpa2 , band 2.4g, etc.
I think I saw one message on the phone couldn’t get an ip, but flash off the screen quick.
If I figure out how to get this to work, I’ll try to let you all know.
With Ubuntu and Windows11 it worked fine no problem; ironic CachyOS is good but the damn hotspot doesn’t work, heh.
Some of us have (we think at least) an adequate firewall on the front end, and would rather just connect trustfully inside our network. Yeah, I know…best to be secure everywhere, but compared to the average user, we’re Fort Knox. And when you’re first setting things up, it’s easier w/o an internal firewall to content with.
A few months ago, I experienced an issue with Gnome and switched to KDE because there are countless (not kidding) positive reviews how amazing it is.
Then I run into an issue. As a web designer, I constantly need to use SFTP to move files around. When I couldn’t close the connection, I posted for help and guess what? The mightly Reddit forum which has 1000’s of glowing KDE reviews couldn’t answer my simple little question.
Why am I telling you this?
Gnome has room for improvement but once the Dash to Panel extension is installed plus, for laptop users, Battery Health Charging, it’s pretty much smooth sailing.
KDE, especially how CachyOS ships it, is great for programming because of the strong integration of Kate and QT6. To me, coding in Python was a dream on CachyOS KDE but my livelihood is web design so I use Gnome to make the most of my time.
You will need to try both and, depending on what you do, you will pretty quickly find out which one makes you more productive.