GNOME or KDE?

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Is the difference, for the most part, eye candy?


On 2022-03-22 17:37, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> You can just install the new window manager to try it out and select
> it when you login.  Typically you can use a small gear icon to switch
> the window manager on the login page before pressing enter or clicking
> the button to login. My Fedora desktop has KDE Plasma, Gnome, Mint,
> and Cinnamon, of which Gnome is my least favorite. It seems designed
> for a touch screen or tablet. You can run KDE/Gnome apps on Mint,
> Cinnamon, etc if it's installed even if you're not running it.
> JD
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:27 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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>> No, kubuntu is (or was) a thing. You should be able to strip your
>> gui (desktop manager) out, leaving you at a terminal prompt. Then
>> you should be able to install KDE.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alexander
>> 
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 16:44 AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I have been using Ubuntu as one of my desktops for a while, but have
>> always been irritated by how difficult it is to do customize things.
>> I was thinking of trying KDE, but do I have to re-install a new
>> Kubuntu O/S to have KDE or is there a way to install the KDE desktop
>> on my Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnome) desktop?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Peter
>> 
>> On 3/22/2022 3:44 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> On 2022-03-22 15:23, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> In the past there has been some discussion about which is better
>> GNOME or KDE?  I like Mint and I see it offers MATE (a fork of GNOME
>> 
>> 2) or Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3).
>> Does it matter?
>> 
>> KDE is very, very customizable.  GNOME 3 is ... not.  There has been
>> a remarkable amount of continuity in how KDE's applications have
>> behaved (and looked, if you want) since KDE 2.  And no, not every
>> application starts with a K these days.  Default file manager is
>> dolphin not konqueror, default image viewer is gwenview not kview,
>> default screenshot taker is spectacle not kscreenshot.  So I prefer
>> KDE but EPID and YMMV.
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