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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Nov-2021 13:10:26 UTC muesli

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   • Janne

   @jb

   Huh? That's not true. KDE sticks to the XDG standards, so *all* its config and data resides in:

   ~/.config
   ~/.local/share

   • Janne (jb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Nov-2021 13:10:28 UTC Janne

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     #KDE / #Plasma

     - Can poke all day configuring it
     - Very frequently doing the above one would step on some bug (which is expected given the large surface). So bugs all over the place.
     - Impossible to keep configuration reproducible (gazillion config files scattered in $HOME). I tried once to put in git - disastrous failure!
     - Font rendering getting better
     - Functionality at the expense of aesthetically pleasing looks

   • Janne (jb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Nov-2021 13:10:31 UTC Janne

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     Some observations.

     #GNOME

     - Looks beautifully clean
     - Font rendering somewhat ugly
     - One has to learn to let go some lack of functionality (whatever #GNOME Gods have in mind - be it)
     - Stability at the cost of functionality
     - Also for stability reasone I do not use extensions (kindof scary to run JS on desktop)

   • Janne (jb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Nov-2021 13:10:41 UTC Janne

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     This time around I did #Xfce -> #GNOME -> #KDE/#Plasma.

     Maybe I will rotate back to Xfce eventually. Since both GNOME and KDE/Plasma have their ugly.
     BTW, KDE is very aggressive. Basically after you switch to KDE, there is some cleanup to be done in $HOME regarding configs. Since all gtk related stuff is infested by Breeze etc. bacially your GNOME looks like some sort of frankenstein monster. Not cool KDE!

   • Janne (jb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Nov-2021 13:10:58 UTC Janne

     I have this annual or semi-annual tradition of rotating desktop environments. I do some jumping then I settle on something for a longer period of time ... until again ;)