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KDE is an extreme distraction and a waste of developer man hours. Not just for the people who made it, but also for those who wrote apps for it. Imagine how much better the Gnome ecosystem would be if all that effort was channeled there instead? Even a fork of the Gnome ecosystem would be better than a completely different API.

As a user, Gnome works just fine. Get over yourselves KDI guys. Sometimes you just have to walk away!

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Gnome came after (this was a good move, KDE was then based on non free software).

I used gnome 2 and really liked it, i switched to kde before gnome 3 and now I just like KDE apps and Plasma more (and I regularly try gnome 3 out of curiosity). Imagine how much more wonderful KDE would be if gnome developers worked on KDE instead.

I guess it's a matter of taste and personal experiences.

I sure would appreciate that most of the work could be shared but the world is not perfect and the ability to explore and try different things in different ecosystems is valuable too.

Generally the opinion is that KDE is the superior experience.

Your complaints are like an American saying that their 110v electricity is good and everyone should switch to it. But it can't even boil a kettle in a reasonable time.

I made the switch recently and have been very pleased. I love the customizability of it. Instead of having to Go back in forth between Gnome Shell/Unity/Cinnamon/etc. to find a desktop that works for me, I can get a very similar experience to any of those environments just by tweaking some settings and using the right plugins. Right now I have a setup that feels very similar to macOS just by adding a dock, using the Global Menu panel plugin, changing some keybindings, and installing Albert to replace Spotlight. Now I barely have any context switching issues moving back and forth from my Macbook and my desktop. It's a much nicer experience to the KDE I tried 4-5 years ago.

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