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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] Astaroth@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago

I don't like any DEs, tbh both KDE Plasma and Cinnamon felt worse than Win7 DE. And I'll never ever even try Gnome

But I absolutely love WMs, I use i3wm

[–] imgel@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

KDE if you want a customizable DE, Gnome if you like simplicity and XFCE if you are on less than 4GB. Anything else is mental illness mixed with boomer nostalgia.

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