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Plasma 6 started very prone to crashes in my laptop when it released. I like how it works a lot more than Gnome, but Plasma tends to be buggier for me too.
This last month I've been having rendering issues in a lot of software, like Firefox and Okular in Fedora 41 (and now 42). I don't know where they came from as it was pretty much perfect last month.
Sometimes I think I'd prefer to return to xfce in laptop (like I tend to use in desktops) or use labwc.
Well, before wayland I always used fluxbox (eventually with picom compositor, which previously was compton). Then now on wayland I'm using sway with fuzzel, yambar and others.
I've always felt both gnome and kde, as well as most other DEs really bloated. Gnome used to be more stable on wayland, and as of Today with better support for nvidia AFAIK, but KDE is quickly catching up.
Not sure why the hate on gnome (and I guess on GTK as well). It doesn't offer all the customization by default, but you can get it through extensions while available. But on KDE one really needs to see a pletora of dependencies each time one adds a simple module or application. Both are improving gradually to become less intense on resources being KDE more advanced on that.
But hey, both are bloated compared to non full DE compositors such as sway or labwc. BTW I use sway with tabbed mode (not actually tiling) and some tweaks, and I prefer that over stacking compositors, but if wanting one labwc is pretty cool.
On X11 there's a huge amount of window managers plus compositors plus several other applications which altogether can give a similar sense to a DE but way less intense on resources, and for sure way less bloated. To me DEs are overrated to answer your title, but perhaps that's just me, :)
re the hate on gnome: extensions are unsupported and can and do break between versions, sometimes intentionasely. The gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn't use extensions and just admit they know best for you.
gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn't use extensions
This is patently untrue. The GNOME developers even maintain their own repository with a bunch of extensions for people to use. Why would they do so if they didn't want anyone to use them?
Do extensions break on GNOME major version upgrades? Sometimes, yeah. Nobody is forced to upgrade if they don't want to, and it's not like you log into your desktop one day to be surprised with a broken system. There's even an upgrade assistant that will tell you prior to an upgrade if any extensions will break.
This pervasive loud minority of whiny complainers spreading nonsense about GNOME is annoying. It's free software; don't use it if you don't like it, that's fine. But don't spread lies about it, that's childish.
Yes, that's what its always done.
I have non of the issue on my Starlite (Kubuntu)
My PC with the newest Arch Linux seems to have sometimes issues with sleep and freezing on waking up. (Intel CPU + AMD GPU)
I used to have hang on suspend resume problem on my Thinkpad E15. It somegot got resolved in later updates. Might be a random firmware problem, that's really hard to track down. So may be it mostly comes down to luck.
I've never had those issues with KDE. I use Garuda dr460nized and Mokka. Both are based on Arch and use KDE.
In my experience KDE on OpenSuse and probably Fedora are rock solid. The first and nowadays probably also the second (which has moved to first tier instead of being a sub-distribution) are considered reference implementations of industry strength distros.
My thought would be that you've added something slightly broken to the mix which breaks KDE. It can happen. Linux is complicated, KDE is also complicated, what annoys one desktop can be ok with another. If you want to figure out what the problem is, you'll have to go through your various system logs to see what fails.
no, if you have qtile set up, it will be a better experience
I’ve been using it on two older systems (4-8 y) one without a ssd or graphics card and it works flawlessly. As others suggested maybe you check your graphics drivers. I used to have problem with kde some time ago but since coming back it’s been nothing but smooth sailing.
Xfce user, here to represent!
I love it and haven't had any trouble. Try it out!
I've been using Fedora KDE for...months? Maybe a year now? And I've yet to see it hang or crash.
I use arch and so I get the latest kde releases and sometimes things are buggy. But usually those are fixed next update. But yes, it is beautiful but man it's not as stable as something like gnome
I don't like it, too much desk space wasted on useless crapola. I use Mate, a nice clean desktop with a simple pull-down menu leaving the majority of the space free for work.