I switched to Plasma this year and never looked back. There is only one reason: Dolphin. It is truly the most powerful file manager in the whole Linux desktop ecosystem. My job have been a lot easier since using Dolphin, not to mention the file picker is designed for the current age and not the stone age like GNOME's.

Gnome is not to be customized. It is designed to be so forgettable that you focus on your work.

No disrespect for plasma though. Packing so many features is an awesome feat and many user prefer kde over gnome.

The new text editor for GNOME is called... "gnome-text-editor". Hilariously, this kind of violates their own HIG where apps shouldn't call themselves "GNOME "...

Use gnome 43 on fedora. I use gnome because it works for me. I face a lot of bugs when I install plasma. I reported many bugs, but with every release the bugs keep increasing. Currently I am not willing to switch to plasma. However I would if kde becomes more stable in the future.

Cinnamon was the perfect middle ground for me. Customizable, but not to the extreme like KDE. Much more polish and stability.

KDE is only good as long as you don't customise it extensively. Then it becomes unusable, panel breaks and even sometimes the whole desktop crashes. At least GNOME is far better in that aspect.

Plasma gives people choice and the project accepts that people want to customise things. Gnome pushes the responsibility for this onto 3rd party developers and it is their responsibility to make sure their tweaks and extensions work with new releases. Looking through the distros there are more that offer a tweaked version of gnome than offer a tweaked version of plasma. So even though you can customise more on plasma, it is not done by most distros.

don't you think KDE dev should focus on sddm improvement. it's really annoying when you need a quick reboot sometimes it takes 2-3 min to just shutdown everything.

People say Gnome is opinionated but so is pushing features on the user like KDE does. Kate is a good example, I don’t need any of these features on this text editor since I will end up installing a more powerful editor of my preference. The plain Gnome editor works just fine for very basic things.

This is actually a well-balanced overview of these DEs conceptual differences. Didn't expect that. Well done!

I think you should absolutely use GNOME if you prefer its basic vanilla workflow, or if you're workflow-agnostic and willing to get used to the GNOME way. It was made for people willing to adapt to its usage paradigm, and it's really good at it--better than Plasma is if you try to replicate its workflow manually. And vanilla GNOME shell is less buggy than Plasma because there's simply so much less of it.

I started with gnome, I liked it compared to windows and thought it was pretty customizable with plugins

I might be one of few going from KDE to GNOME. I am sold on the workflow and it works for me. There are few things that I miss from KDE, and I would love to be able to combine these into GNOME. I do not have that many extensions installed and enabled (like 4 or 5). I think I get the idea behind both DE, but GNOME speaks bit more to me. Both are very good DEs and it comes down to personal preference.

I use KDE since since about 1997. Maybe since before Nico was born. But still enjoy his content, sometimes finding new things I missed. Good job 👏

I love the fact, that KDE lets you do (almost) anything. Digging around the settings can be overwhelming, as a new user; gnome is much simpler in that regard. But if like to make your desktop your own, KDE is your tool. My desktop isn't that traditional either, but I can change basically anything. There are a few feautres I'm missing yet, but they are getting slowly implemented anyway.

Excelente, sin duda son dos proyectos increíbles 👍🏼 Pero a la final es cosa de gustos.

I can't decide if GNOME or Plasma it's better for me so I sticked with cinnamon 👀

The one thing I don't like about the plasma themes is that there are no theme editor. Most plasma themes are usually a slightly different color and slightly different spacing. The different customisations can also overlap in a weird way. A nice set of settings to adjust the color, spacing, and a drag and drop for svgs or icon packs would be awesome to have.

Small correction, you don't need to install a plugin to get a minimize button, it's a configuration that can be enabled graphically through gnome tweaks or manually through dconf.