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I suppose so, but xfce and cinnamon do excel in use cases where the graphical polish of gnome and kde are either unnecessary or are too resource intensive. For old devices or servers where you want a desktop, they both work really effectively while using pretty much the bare minimum.

Like most things involving Linux, it’s more about options and flexibility than making a desktop that works in all use cases. There are actually quite a few things I like about gnome, and I wouldn’t mind using it, I just like being given a million options to tinker with lol.

Yeah, that’s totally fair. Maybe I should mess with gnome again and see what customizations are available now, that’s always been the biggest draw to kde for me. And the desktop widgets are fun.

Lol I figured. I took it for a brief spin again about a year ago, but not long enough to form a super informed opinion about it. I was looking to discuss with the other guy, which is what happened. I appreciate your update.

Yeah, that totally makes sense. I also was a windows boy, but I got annoyed by having every single app showing on every window all the time, since i sometimes have multiple of the same application open across different screens. I also really like having my main screen be the only one with a system tray, clock, and launcher, with the other taskbars purely being devoted to that screen’s tasks.

It’s always so interesting to see the different ways that people like to work.

Ohhhh okay, I suppose that’s fair enough lol. I hate having the same taskbars on every screen, so it makes sense that this behavior wouldn’t have really been noticed. I’m really surprised that there isn’t a way to mirror taskbar setups, til.

I’m not sure I follow your gripe about multi monitor handling. You can add completely independently customized toolbars and set up the task manager to show icons for windows just on that screen or on all screens.

I daily drove gnome for a few months, but it was back in like 2014. What features make it better for multi monitor setups?

Thanks for the tip, I’ll give this a try!

As someone that is stuck with an Nvidia card rn, I’ve had a few applications just refuse to work with Nvidia and Wayland on KDE Neon. Maybe I just need to tinker more.