<story><title>The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/963851/0c64b8038c62432c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haunter</author><text>Personally I feel that KDE is what GNOME wanted to be but can’t. Not just the DE itself but the KDE applications too, just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP. Somehow KDE could accomplish much more and feels more mature and robust too.&lt;p&gt;I loved GNOME2 back then but feels like something went wrong with GNOME3 regarding the whole
project and how users reacted to
the different UI. I’d say the classic Windows NT era UI (95, 98, 2000, Xp) was peak design so I’m glad KDE stick to that more or less and made it even better and modern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>&amp;gt; just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP&lt;p&gt;FWIW technically the programs have different purposes, even if they also have a lot of overlapping functionality: Krita is primarily a digital painting application, which you can also use to do some general image editing while GIMP is primarily an image editing application which you can also use to do some digital painting. However if you compare the focus of each application to the equivalent of the other you&amp;#x27;ll see that Krita&amp;#x27;s image editing functionality - especially on things outside digital painting - is lacking while GIMP is stronger there and at the same time GIMP&amp;#x27;s digital painting functionality much more limited when compared to Krita&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>
<story><title>The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/963851/0c64b8038c62432c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haunter</author><text>Personally I feel that KDE is what GNOME wanted to be but can’t. Not just the DE itself but the KDE applications too, just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP. Somehow KDE could accomplish much more and feels more mature and robust too.&lt;p&gt;I loved GNOME2 back then but feels like something went wrong with GNOME3 regarding the whole
project and how users reacted to
the different UI. I’d say the classic Windows NT era UI (95, 98, 2000, Xp) was peak design so I’m glad KDE stick to that more or less and made it even better and modern.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>The simple 2-bit explanation is KDE is following Windows trends, Gnome is following Mac trends. Even the screenshot widgets are both following the closed-source versions (recent Gnome screenshot widget is exactly the new MacOS screenshot widget)&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s a bit of a shame that Ubuntu is the &amp;quot;no headaches&amp;quot; distro, but ships with a DE that will annoy nerds much more than KDE does. My Linux experience got so much better under KDE. I respect what Gnome does a lot but I feel at home in KDE land.</text></comment>