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I have never understood how there was any competition.
KDE has always been a better DE than anything on any platform, while gnome has been one of the worst and it just keeps going downhill.
KDE gathered a lot of initial hate because the Qt widget library it relied on used to not be proper Free Software. (That was fixed about two decades ago, though.)
Unfortunately, GTK is much prettier than QT.
This can sometimes come at the cost of intuitiveness however. As an example that just happened to me the other day, I was using Pinta which uses libadwaita and had opened an image to make some modifications to it.
All was going well until I wanted to save a new copy of it (and not override the original). The toolbar has all of these functions on it, open, save, undo/redo, etc... but not Save As.
Apparently there's a tiny little overflow button on the far right side, click it and you get a whole bunch of functions - one of them being the holy "Save As" option I was looking for. I almost went down the route of making a copy of the image outside Pinta and then just overwriting the original.
Apparently the idea of making a copy of an image is blasphemy. Even Microsoft Word when they had first moved to the Ribbon UI made the save button have a little dropdown right under the save option to reveal Save As.
Don't get me wrong, I love how some libadwaita apps look. Mission Center for example? Chef's Kiss - but it's a very simple application that all I need to do is open it to have a quick look at the very pretty looking graphs. Although the latest update seems to have gotten rid of being able to have the sidebar open persistently (now taking an extra click to change between performance graphs)... But I still need to double check to see if that's intended vs being a bug before I judge that too harshly.
Ummm but gtk is pretty bad in ux for me. It has some weird way of contents in title bar. And you can't click close button by clicking at top right corner of screen for fullscreen apps because its floating or rounded
I disagree completely, GTK looks like they took windows 3.11 and covered all the widgets in dried shit.
It doesn't matter if it's prettier, when I need to spend twice the time to do some basic stuff because I need to move my mouse cursor half way through the fucking screen, at least in GNOME apps.
How is that toleratable is beyond me.