Why is Gnome more popular than KDE?
>>52906405
ubuntu had this orange/brown theme when it first came out, and a lot of people liked it.
Stupid people stuck with ubuntu, and became gnome fanboys over time.
Gnome was almost dead before ubuntu came along.
Just one more reason to hate ubuntu.
>>52906405
Kde is garbage, slow, and looks bad. If you're gonna waste time ricing why not just go with xfce
>>52906512
except that you're wrong. kde is snappy as fuck on my x60
>>52906469
GNOME is more stable you idiot.
>>52906405
Just like with pretty much everything else in the world, the shitty stuff is popular while the good stuff is obscure.
>>52906559
Case in point.
>>52906405
Possibly babby duck syndrome.
KDE and its foundational technologies are superior to GNOME and GTK. It's prettier and easier to use, but crashes occasionally on my Macbook with integrated graphics. No problems to report on my desktop with an i3 and GTX960.
>>52906512
It's not 2009 anymore.
There was some problems with the way Qt was licensed many years ago, for starter.
That lead Debian, RH and many other distros to focus on Gnome.
Also Gnome 2 was really good and considerably better than KDE 3 and early KDE4 and GTK is pretty much the standard toolkit.
>>52906512
Your an idiot
kde a shit
gnome a waifu
>>52906405
At one time the QT framework wasn't GPL compatible, so most distros chose GNOME. voila.
>>52906405
I've always had stability issues with kde so eventually I stopped using it.
>>52906405
Because KDE looks fucking awful.
>>52906405
What a disgusting picture.
>>52906710
>your
>>52906710
>your
discarded
>>52906776
Hopefully you didn't use garbage like Kubuntu, if you tried KDE.
gnome 2 was decent in an era where kde was very bloated, sluggish, and visually busy, while most people who wanted a kde-like experience used xfce
kde never got better, xfce is old, and no one seems to care that gnome removes features while making config harder
>>52906557
what the fuck are you doing to make it fast because it's slow as tits on my x200t / t500 and takes YEARS to login even on my desktop
>>52906827
it is simple. i am doing:
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>>52906822
wha tmovie is this from ?
>>52906841
mr. robot
>>52906834
ah, I've yet to give it a proper try, got a little impatient with compiling firefox on my t500 to bother going past getting x/rxvt/firefox-bin installed
>>52906873
Firefox is one of the largest programs in all of damn Portage. GNU Icecat is somewhat better, removing all the bloat and whatnot, but jesus it takes a long time to compile.
Who cares, both are complete shit.
>>52906405
Maki a shit. Stop posting shit waifu.
Also Cinnamon a best
>>52906964
Maki is the official /g/'s mascot, fuck off Illya
>>52906873
i couldnt even get firefox to compile. chrome compiled flawlessly in under 5 minutes though
Gnome is shit
KDE is shit
DE is shit
Where can I find ultra stable linux distro with i3wm already installed and configured?
>>52906964
>>52906997
Stop watching moeblob pedo shit. I don't even know who these characters are.
>>52906686
>It's not 2009 anymore.
I've uses multiple versions of kde, and I followed kde5 since I was excited since it looked boss in the previews.
I recently tried kde5 (plasma or whatever they call it) and it still looks like garbage. It looks like a product of a riced desktop from a 12 year old with all the stupid effects.
>but you can change all that
Why not just rice out xfce or a window manager that has way more potential to look more unique and better
Gnome 3 much better out of the box
>>52906405
>Gnome
Allow me to interject, what you're referring to as Gnome is actually GNU Gnome, or how I like to call it GNU + Gnome (Ga noo plus ga nome)
>>52906964
>>52906997
Both are better than that fag tier /co/ waifu jenny. She's a shit and doesn't belong on /g/
I honestly think it is the early buy in with the support in place. KDE was terrible, but it got better. Not going to say which it better, but gnome is enjoying a userbase that is handed to them right now and most people will want to write things for the largest amount of people
>>52908243
>gnu + gnu network object model environment
>>52909178
The 'G' in Gnome stands for GTK, not GNU, retard.
>>52909229
just checked wiki before posting, and it says gnu.
>Why are Gnome-derived desktop environments more popular than KDE?
Fixed it for you
>>52906405
she's wearing a fucking cheongsam, yet she's japanese. what the fuck.
>>52908161
What version did you try? The first releases of Plasma 5 sucked, but we're on 5.5 already and things have improved a lot. Shills keep posting screenshots of the first releases just to shit on KDE, lol.
>>52909229
>The 'G' in Gnome stands for GTK, not GNU, retard.
>GTK
>GNOME Tool Kit
>>The 'G' in Gnome stands for GTK, not GNU, retard.
>>52906405
Because KDE is a mess. The only good thing about it is Dolphin.
>>52906405
I appreciate the customization that KDE offers but I don't personally need it. I like the simplicity of Gnome and how I can set it up to be "good enough" in a couple minutes. I do wish a few extensions would be official options though.
>>52909536
I tried whatever the newest release was two weeks ago on arch
>>52909265
Unity isn't derived from Gnome
>>52909798
>arch
there's your problem. they suck at packaging it.
Because gnome has a cute weather app and kde doesn't.
>>52907009
>muh freedumb loonix
>chrome
Kek'd
>>52906997
Jenny is our mascot now
Mods will be changing sticky soon
>install openSUSE KDE
>krash every two days
>Install Kubuntu
>black screen on boot
>try 3 other Gnome focused distros
>they work without an issue
I'm not even going to complain about how ugly and inconsistent it is.
>>52910243
They really do. It's gotten pretty sad, and the truth is that Arch is becoming bad at packaging a lot of things. It's been great for years but I'm considering jumping ship because it's obvious they just can't figure their shit out any more.
>>52910848
>free to do anything
>even install proprietary garbage
>>52906557
I find it to not be 'snappy'.
Honestly I found Cinnamon runs best of all.
>>52909178
why would a GUI be related to Networking..?
...Close second but no cigar for idiot of the week!
First place goes to the moron who couldn't tell me if he wanted fucking wifi or ethernet at work and thought I meant USB.
And yes, to me, you are all filthy animals.
>>52911602
really mean anon, i'm hurt.
>>52907427
Normalfag.
Because plasma was shit. I used solely kde before they came up with plasma and then I was forced to shop around. Nowadays I'm pretty satisfied with gnome shell. Or mate. Lxde is preddy gud, too.
>>52906964
Good taste, anon
>>52910920
The KDE spin of Fedora is working fantastically at the moment. So.. eh.
>>52906997
Slut
>>52910929
I don't use Arch, but what's so bad about their packaging? What is the problem with their packaging of KDE Plasma 5?
i3 master race
>>52907427
>I don't even know who these characters are.
Kill your'eself
>>52907242
Just install x11 and i3wm on whichever has the most convenient release model
>>52906405
I guess people gave it a chance.
personally I hated gnome 3 until i gave it another real try last year
Maki is literally the worst love live. Why are Makifags so annoying.
>>52913115
>Maki is literally the worst love live.
Nozomi and Kotori exist.
>>52913115
I'm a Nicofag, Maki is the second best Love Live!
>>52913128
Nozomi and Kotori are good too.
>>52913128
>he doesn't like nozoomi
Bird is mid tier. Maki is just a bitch who whines nonstop.
>>52906469
>ubuntu had this orange/brown theme when it first came out, and a lot of people liked it.
First it was brown, then it became orange. Now it's more purplish.
>Stupid people stuck with ubuntu, and became gnome fanboys over time.
People weren't stupid. Ubuntu was and is still great for people that need more up to date features, with a hand holding OS. It's a good stepping stone towards more serious and stable OSs.
>Gnome was almost dead before ubuntu came along.
That's not true. A lot of distributions shipped GNOME by default (Debian, Fedora, Red Hat). Others just shipped KDE. Life was simpler with just two main DE choices back then.
>Just one more reason to hate ubuntu.
We owe a lot to Ubuntu. It enabled more people to get onto the open source community. The learning curve proved to be a little too big, hence Ubuntu's success.
>>52906405
disgusting art style
if you're gonna makipost pls don't make me barf
>>52906790
you serious?
>>52906692
This
>>52906405
Wait, is it? I thought I was the only person in existance that actually likes Gnome 3.
In my case I tried KDE twice and on both occasions I didn't like it. In the 3.x days the default theme (Keramik I believe it was called) repulsed me so much I dropped KDE altogether. Some time later I tried it again (It was 4.x I think...) and got infuriated with the application launch menu that was a weird mix of mouse-over tabs and sliding panes.
On the other side Gnome 3 when it came out pretty much duplicated what I was doing with Gnome 2 and compiz anyway.
>actually using GNOME
ahahahahahaha
>>52915961
I know, right? xDxDxD
>>52909595
>GTK
>GNOME Tool Kit
It's GIMP Tool Kit senpai
>>52906405
They're both shit
>>52916172
No, it's GTK+. It was formerly called GIMP Toolkit.
>>52909595
>>52915592
>>52913093
>>52906469
>>52906692
>>52906725
>>52907122
>>52906827
>>52908161
>>52908243
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>>52909265
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>>52913093
>gnome
>Gnome
>>52916250
>>52912887
It did for me as well
But it just takes up too many resources imo
How old were you when you first got a girlfriend? I'm a 22 y/o student @ the faculty of computer science and am still a virgin. Most of my class mates however seemed to have experienced sex already, so I feel a bit left out.
>>52916439
14
I feel sorry for you anon
>>52916172
GTK stands for GIMP Toolkit
GIMP stands for GNU image manipulation program
GNU stands for GNU's not UNIX
So GTK stands for GNU's not UNIX image manipulation program toolkit
Is UNIX or GNOME an acronym for something?
KDE doesn't look as good and is far less polished than the average gnome application.
Its overloaded with useless stuff so you don't tend to find the things you actually need. It feels like a worse version of the Windows paradigm basically and I already don't like Windows.
>>52916502
UNIX is wordplay on its predecessor MULTIX
>>52909178
>>52916502
>GTK stands for GIMP Toolkit
It's GTK+, which was formerly called GIMP Toolkit, with GTk as its acronym: https://web.archive.org/web/19990417052141/http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-gimp.html
Nowadays it's just GTK+.
>GIMP stands for GNU image manipulation program
It's GNU Image Manipulation Program. Or in short, GIMP.
>GNU stands for GNU's not UNIX
>So GTK stands for GNU's not UNIX image manipulation program toolkit
GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix". Remember that UNIX® is the registered trademark, hold by The Open Group: http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix.html
>As the owner of the UNIX trademark, The Open Group has separated the UNIX trademark from any actual code stream itself, thus allowing multiple implementations.
When referring to the operating system, please just write 'Unix'. When referring to the trademark, please follow these guidelines: http://www.opengroup.org/content/legal-trademark-guidelines
>Is UNIX or GNOME an acronym for something?
GNOME used to be an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment. Now GNOME just stands for GNOME: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-April/msg00050.html
>>52916721
Multics even. And wikipedia says UNIX was born Unics.
>>52916736
Please refrain from using the UNIX® trademark as a noun: http://www.opengroup.org/content/legal-trademark-guidelines
>>52906405
>Why is Gnome more popular than KDE?
i haven't used either in years
there's no justification to use so many resources over simpler WMs
>>52916793
Why use a window manager when you can just use a console and tmux?
>>52906512
Works great on my x220
>>52918123
works fine for me too. It's apparently not good if you're on an nvidia gpu though
>>52906405
You know, I'm actually on KDE myself, I know this desktop environment is supposed to be better, but, you know what they say, old habits, they die hard.
>>52916439
Girlfriends are overrated, get a waifu
>>52918576
Gnome 3 is absolute trash.
Linux's desktop future lies with KDE Plasma 5. It's great if it isn't buggy on your hardware.
>tfw comfy with unity
I laugh at you peasants.
>>52918673
I actually could see GNOME on a tablet. Actually, I want to see GNOME on my tablet. I'd install the shit out of it if I only knew how to GNU/Linux on ARMv7.
But yeah, KDE feels good on my X201s. Gotta try out Xfce and compare them though.
Is better
>>52918719
Lol, I have the same laptop, non s version though. I personally thought that xfce didn't feel very polished. I tried some distro with it, and it just wasn't very good.
It was buggy, hibernate/suspend didn't work, getting qt and gtk applications to look the same was even more of a nightmare than on kde, and it wasn't even that lightweight feeling. kde takes a while to boot, but after that there was no difference in performance. I also don't like all the super outdated stuff that xfce comes with: fucking xscreensaver, dated garbage that looks awful, terrible session manager, default software sucks, you need to install alternatives etc. etc.
>>52918719
X220t, so not arm, but...
>>52906405
Because KDE looks outdated compared to Gnome when you first install it
Honestly Gnome is the only good modern looking desktop environment without having to modify anything, but other than that it's a piece of shit
>>52906638
>kde
>good
pick absolutely none
>>52919179
Plasma 5 honestly looks better than Gnome these days.
>>52906405
gnome has uniform feel across entire desktop. apps feel like they fit together. kde is not there yet - it appears like a mix or different designs. it makes for a more professional impression
>>52918695
Enjoy your Amazon spyware
>>52916731
Do you have autism?
>>52919854
Nope.
>>52906469
>ubuntu had this orange/brown theme when it first came out, and a lot of people liked it.
As much as I hate Ubuntu, I really liked their theme.
>>52913093
Gnome3 did nothing but crash for me last year, and their shortcuts never worked to remove or change panels. So I said fuck it and went to MATE.
>>52916439
Just stop being so autistic and you'll stop cock blocking yourself. Women will flock to you faggot. Women aren't as hard to get as you think it they are.
>>52906778
Plasma looks great you homo.
