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Don’t forget the OG KDE mascot Kandalf
But he’s not that popular.
Yes we can!
Yes we kan!
I love how you need to stretch out positives for gnome to have that many. “Uh… It’s popular? And some of the applications have good names, I guess?”
XFCE: including it in the meme is bloat
ironic how the gooner one isnt the one with the foot
Amateurs
These are only the safe ones, you coward!
On other news, KDE works, and Gnome doesnt; so that koncludes it for me
What
Huh?
You can’t conclude without DE!
KDE got around to updating the theme Kpersonalizer.
Original for those who don’t remember what it was like:
Jokes aside: I love KDE. Gnome is an idea that would work if you could actually do anything with it (maybe always adding extensions means they should you know make it functional).
Yep the design philosophy of “like it or fuck you” evokes Apple clearly enough. They’ve just cut it to the quick at this point.
Are we sure that Gnome is the most popular? I would’ve expected KDE to be the most popular one, even not considering the mascots.
It’s the most popular because it’s Ubuntu’s default which happens to still be the “default linux distro”. Many GNOME users probably don’t even know what GNOME or a DE in general is (and that’s ok).
If you ask linux nerds, however, KDE generally seems more popular but that’s probably because people who care about this sort of thing tend to value customization and KDE’s philosophy more than GNOME’s.
Source: I use KDE on Arch BTW, guess which category I fall on.
Gnome is the most popular DE for Fedora. Though KDE is popular enough to finally get Fedora to place it equally alongside their Gnome ISO. But I would bet Gnome has at least a slim lead ahead of all DEs.
TBF it’s likely the most popular because it’s the default not necessarily because it is better than KDE (or worse, they’re both good just aimed at different people)
Today, which one you might choose has more to do with how you vibe with either one. So there is no “wrong” choice. But back in the early days, Gnome was the better DE. More polished and definitely more stable. I can remember the crashes and the total crash and burn of KDE from those days. That gave Gnome the leg up to becoming default for many distros.
These days. KDE Plasma is every bit as good as Gnome.
No way to get reliable numbers without telemetry but KDE’s userbase is a lot louder for sure.
All three major enterprise distros use GNOME, none of them officially support KDE.
I think so too. GNOME famously doesn’t prioritize customisation, which despite lots of angry complaints, still doesn’t intend to change. That’s because they already have a solid user base, a silent group that couldn’t care less about customisation and gaming features, and mostly want it to “just work”.
Think the Linux Torvalds type of person, using a workstation distro. Best thing GNOME can do is to minimize changes that break user’s workflows and make sure the defaults are good.
The side effect is that they turn off their corporate machines after work and that’s it for the day. They aren’t going on forums to defend GNOME vs KDE arguments.
The steam deck might make KDE the most popular
With the fall of Ubuntu maybe yeah
Why not Konclusion?
Quick, someone make a mascot for KATE!
Also KDE supports window decorations under Wayland, and also a lot better IMHO.
Kate actually does have a mascot, Kate the Cyber Woodpecker
Wow, she actually looks cool!
Nice, but still no furry porn of her…
krita is right there, grab a pen
Hmmm… Don’t tempt me.
Though it would be funny if I was responsible for applying Rule 35 to a second character…
I can also try my own shot at it, I’ll see if I can draw something of her without getting distracted by other projects of mine. Haven’t drawn anything furry/kemono related yet, but will get the cloaca treatment as I gave to the two bird VTubers (Nanashi Mumei, Dokibird) I have drawn.
Well, she’s bird. I’ve seen too many Avali already to get freaked by a cloaca.
Meanwhile in chat…
jkh2rt;,5,??
I definitely prefer MacOS-style desktop design, so I lean in favor of Gnome. I often use Ubuntu solely because their take on Gnome is super clean and attractive to me.
The dash. What the fuck? It would be a cool option, but I like the dock, and the extension for that doesn’t work properly for me.
If you’re gonna rip off MacOS then rip it off.
We just made our KDE look like Mac. It’s way more Maclike than Gnome, and actually pretty great!
Maybe they have some kind of patent?
Yeah I think they’re trying not to get sued for sure
Ubuntu just uses the extension though?
The dash to dock extension? That’s my thinking too but dash to dock works like ass on my system, while Ubuntu’s unity mods or whatever are rock solid. I dunno…
I guess I like KDE plasma now
Watching Gnome and KDE from Cinnamon 🍿😎
Own configuration of window manager wins.
I wish I understood, what are those comments and characters and what do they have to do with kde or gnome?
konqi is the green one and is the mascot of kde
kiki the cyber squirrel is the white one and is the mascot of kde’s drawing app krita
the listing with numbers is how many entries with that tag there is, its from the ui of a fanart site that has a lot of nsfw
the joke is that kde is better because there is more nsfw of the mascots
Oh boy
Konqi is KDE’s mascot
