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This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down” (pointieststick.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm really excited about how great KDE has become in recent years. It was getting scary back when KDE4 had lots of problems and gnome3 was devoid of all functionality. Nowadays KDE makes the Linux desktop truly a pleasure to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

KDE4 was deprecated a decade ago now. It's hard to believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Kde is looking mighty good to try now, ive been kind of bored from gnome recently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

same here! kde is one of the reasons im feeling like hopping. they really polished it a lot in areas where it was needed.

i just need a little free time, any day now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I avoided it for a while because it felt so clunky, but it has really improved in the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gnome has been pissing me off for a while. Time to take a try of kde

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I used GNOME for years because people say it's "easier", but it's not "easier" it's just simpler. I almost never need to go to the command line with KDE whereas with GNOME it was a weekly occurrence. I am frankly embarrassed I wrote off KDE for so long.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can never tell if this KDE Stan is a joke or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know what the hell are you talking about