Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience
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Ok, switched to cinnamon. I like this one.
I am not sure how to articulate what it was about KDE that I did not like.
It simply put me off from the get go.
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@JaredBusch said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
Looks like I have KDE.
I did not actually pick one. I simply clicked download, so I randomly got KDE.
Now to switch to Cinnamon.
Oh. I respect the KDE team a lot but I've not been comfortable with their desktop post version 3. It's solid and loaded with features but the Plasma stuff is weird and not intuitive. If you go "power user" on it I'm sure it's great. But for me, I left it as I'm a more casual style desktop user and it just didn't fit with me.
I think that they decided that the market was full and that they needed to really innovate to be relevant, which they did. It's interesting and someday I hope to have time to dig into it more.
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@JaredBusch said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
Ok, switched to cinnamon. I like this one.
I am not sure how to articulate what it was about KDE that I did not like.
It simply put me off from the get go.
Sweet. That makes more sense to me. I find Cinnamon hard to dislike. It really holds onto the goodness of what Windows 7 was but with a super polished modern feel.
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@scottalanmiller said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
@JaredBusch said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
Looks like I have KDE.
I did not actually pick one. I simply clicked download, so I randomly got KDE.
Now to switch to Cinnamon.
Oh. I respect the KDE team a lot but I've not been comfortable with their desktop post version 3. It's solid and loaded with features but the Plasma stuff is weird and not intuitive. If you go "power user" on it I'm sure it's great. But for me, I left it as I'm a more casual style desktop user and it just didn't fit with me.
I think that they decided that the market was full and that they needed to really innovate to be relevant, which they did. It's interesting and someday I hope to have time to dig into it more.
Ya I don't see the use of the plasma workspaces. I use the traditional workspaces a ton in Gnome 3, but I don't see the value to what plasma does with them. I tried having a separate "business" vs "personal" workspace a while ago and just couldn't wrap my head around the use case.
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@JaredBusch said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
Ok, switched to cinnamon. I like this one.
I am not sure how to articulate what it was about KDE that I did not like.
It simply put me off from the get go.
The first thing I do if I'm using KDE is change that stupid applications menu. I can't stand the default one. It's slow and looks awful.
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@stacksofplates said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
@scottalanmiller said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
@JaredBusch said in Korora - what do you do with the desktop experience:
Looks like I have KDE.
I did not actually pick one. I simply clicked download, so I randomly got KDE.
Now to switch to Cinnamon.
Oh. I respect the KDE team a lot but I've not been comfortable with their desktop post version 3. It's solid and loaded with features but the Plasma stuff is weird and not intuitive. If you go "power user" on it I'm sure it's great. But for me, I left it as I'm a more casual style desktop user and it just didn't fit with me.
I think that they decided that the market was full and that they needed to really innovate to be relevant, which they did. It's interesting and someday I hope to have time to dig into it more.
Ya I don't see the use of the plasma workspaces. I use the traditional workspaces a ton in Gnome 3, but I don't see the value to what plasma does with them. I tried having a separate "business" vs "personal" workspace a while ago and just couldn't wrap my head around the use case.
Same here. The old style desktops I used and liked. Plasma I just can't figure out.
