[adrium]

Exactly this.

I have been using KDE as my only DE for over ten years, including some years for work. Previously used Windows and currently, I have been forced to use Mac for about 4 years.

Window management in Mac is an outright disrespect for power users and built-in applications for Win are just not up to speed. In KDE, I just use most apps from KDE universe and most of them are a perfect fit.

KDE managed to take the good from Mac and Win and even improve upon it - and if you don't like it, you can most likely easily change it in the System Settings panel or application preferences. With Kubuntu, everything (hardware) has mostly worked out of the box and upgrading since Kubuntu 7.04 has been working pretty flawlessly.

When they release new features, it is evident that they care about users. The theming is consistent, elegant and yet heavily configurable. Plasma and Kwin support you in the way that YOU want to work and does not force some workflow upon the users. I can control my Hue bulbs from the desktop and interact with my phone (through KDE Connect) bidirectionally.

The only missing thing was auto dark mode and I created https://github.com/adrium/knightadjuster for it. Even without reading much documentation, I could accomplish what I wanted simply by experimenting with qdbusviewer.

Thank you KDE developers - thank you KDE community! Keep up the good work and thanks for caring about users!

[wkat4242]

Thanks for making knightadjuster. I wasn't aware of it, I generally use mostly dark colours anyway and I turn on dark reader in Firefox manually.

However, this sounds like a great automated option. I just wish it would work with firefox too :)

[valianteffort]

I don't use KDE personally because it ships with an absurd amount of bloat. And ever since I setup Hyprland I have had no need for anything else.

[wetpaws]

KDE apps are not included in the plasma by default. Plasma itself is very lightweight.

[valianteffort]

Sorry, I was referring to the bundle that Asahi Linux is using. I had a bad time trying to uninstall each package one-by-one and decided to just start with a minimal install instead.

[wkat4242]

Same on FreeBSD. It comes with the basics. Some apps like Krita or Kdenlive are pretty heavy but also incredibly powerful. So I have opted to install them but they are not in the base package.

I think some small apps like Konsole, Kate, Dolphin and KWallet come in the default install but you can't really do without them.

[darthrupert]

It does have some visual bloat when you compare it to modern tiling wms, though.

[wkat4242]

True but it's much more than a WM. Especially a tiling one which are designed to be super basic :)