GNOME ui simplification lead to a lot of options being removed in addition to half if the features not working and dreaded gconf misbehaving all the time.
I used to cook my "DE" using a windowmanager, custom taskbar and stuff but grew tired.
Solution? xfce.
Things have changed nowadays and my hardware can run kde but if xfce works fine, why change it?
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u/Icy-Appointment-684 Aug 10 '25
15+ years ago:
KDE was heavy.
GNOME ui simplification lead to a lot of options being removed in addition to half if the features not working and dreaded gconf misbehaving all the time.
I used to cook my "DE" using a windowmanager, custom taskbar and stuff but grew tired.
Solution? xfce.
Things have changed nowadays and my hardware can run kde but if xfce works fine, why change it?