it's something I've been pointing out for almost half a decade now, the main problem with KDE isn't any of the bugs, it's the lack of vision of what the project wants to be

it ends up being a mix of windows with now GNOME's design due to it never being able to say no when people want "more features and more preferences"

[–] iusearchbtw@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It wants to be feature rich, configurable, and flexible

GNOME already has the Apple "we know better than you so it's our way or the highway" design strategy down to an art

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

it's a project with a cohesive idea of what it wants to build, to a certain extent they are perfectly right to stand with "their way or the highway"

this isn't an apple thing, it's just that in the operating system market there isn't any other example of someone having a defined idea of what they want to build

KDE tries to be all of those things, but trying to cast too wide of a net just gets you a mess of settings and unfortunately buggy experience overall

small edit: I have a ton of respect for the KDE devs, I just realized I've been sounding too negative about them, I just don't like the end product

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's been the same buggy mess for as long as i've been using linux, always with the promise that the next update will take it from "neat tech demo" to "suitable permenant DE", i'm just really confused why it's the hot shit right now because my experience with the current release was literally identical to the first time i tried it way, way back on maverick meerkat. if i didn't know any better i'd say they changed the version number and nothing else.

[–] claire@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Does that mean you're on Kubuntu? Which would mean you haven't even tried Plasma 6 yet right?

Honestly Plasma is moving so fast it feels like the experience would unironically be better on something like Arch or Fedora where you get new updates almost instantaneously. Anyway, I'm on Fedora and Plasma is pretty stable for me, especially since Plasma 6. Some minor annoyances I encountered are also getting fixed in 6.1.