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In my experience, KDE has too many features that are buggy and don't work. Like hiding the task bar automatically will break the search shortcut because the search is attached to the task bar, so it won't come up unless you mouse over the task bar
Gnome has no features, yet it's buggy and doesn't work. You alt tab out of a Wine game and it will think the alt button is constantly pressed down when you tab back in.
Choose your poison
In KDE you can literally just start typing anywhere on the desktop (or set it up to activate with a hotkey), and it'll use krunner to search your PC, and do a bunch of other shit if you want. Never had anything about task bars interfere with it whatsoever.
In fact, it has saved my ass a few times when plasma shell would crash and I couldn't access a terminal for whatever reason, I was able to use krunner to restart plasma shell. Very useful.
I'm in my browser, but I'd like to not be in my browser anymore (open something else). The shortcut straight up doesn't work sometimes and that's embarrassing
I'm not sure I even understand what you're talking about and how it relates to my comment . What shortcut? Nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Did you respond to my comment about some other feature? I'm talking about hitting the super key to launch a program
Ok. I guess I just didn't automatically understand what "the shortcut" meant.
Not to mention the menu button just doesn't work at all sometimes.