GNOME or KDE?

[Samuel Stavole-Carter]

Just want to plug i3-gaps. Very lightweight and very customizable.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:37 PM JD Austin via PLUG-discuss <
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> 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 <
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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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