[neves]

I has been a decade since I used KDE. It was eating too much memory of slow computer. I always missed a desktop environment for power users, instead of one aiming for the average user. Kde always the best one with this objective

[dTal]

Your opinion is a decade out of date :) Plasma 5 is very light, lighter even than XFCE.

[JW_00000]

Memory usage has greatly improved in my experience compared to a decade ago. (At least, in comparison to the available RAM.) Actually I felt that nowadays Gnome Shell with some extensions is more resource hungry.

I switched from KDE 3.5 / 4.0 to Unity and later Gnome around the time KDE 4 was first released (apparently 2008), for the same reason as you. But last year I switched back to KDE Plasma because Gnome felt unstable and slightly glitchy, and KDE is much smoother now.

[criddell]

> I always missed a desktop environment for power users, instead of one aiming for the average user.

What types of things make a big difference for you?

When I sit at my computer, it's to do something in an application. The desktop environment doesn't do much for me once I've launched the program that I'm actually there to use, does it? I'm generally pretty happy in Ubuntu or Windows or macOS or iPadOS.

[vvillena]

You're lucky to have a workflow that depends in just one application and one window, then.

[criddell]

Multiple windows isn't a power user feature and it isn't a differentiator for KDE.

[vvillena]

No, but organizing the environment into separate groups of windows and apps that are related, and being able to use different settings on each task is totally a power user feature and a differentiatior. I've seen nothing out there as powerful as KDE activities.

[xbar]

This is how I feel. But it's been more like 2 decades since I used KDE. Time to come back to it.