[NovaDudely]

That is odd, I have never had performance issues with KDE. It was no quicker or slower than any other high end desktop system.

My only issue with it is that it seems to try to do a little too much - but that is just a matter of taste.

Personally, KDE is the jack of all trades - it can do anything you ask it, Gnome goes a little too simple, I really like Cinnamon as a middle ground. But each to their own.

[vodkapump]

Yeah I really don't understand it. There really has to be something wrong somewhere because I can't imagine KDE actually being as bad as I experience it, because absolutely nobody would be using it if so.

To me my favourite is xfce by far, it is so simple and fast without being too simple where it becomes an inconvenience. But, I need wayland so Gnome and KDE are the only really good alternatives for now. (Yes I know there are plenty of alternatives like sway, enlightenment, etc etc but no.)

[neurostimulant]

Are you using Nvidia? I remember there was an issue with Nvidia and Aurorae (one of the window decorator used by kde). Try changing system theme in kde settings in case one of them doesn't trigger the slowdown issue.

[vodkapump]

Same issues on both my nvidia desktop, my amd desktop, and my amd laptop. I definitely first suspected nvidia, since well, it's nvidia. But I wouldn't have the exact same issues on other machines without nvidia as well then..i hope

[xeyownt]

Haven't tried KDE lately, but I tried it a couple times on the last 20 years, and every time I couldn't sustain more than a couple hours.

Main complain is that it is noticeably slow and the GUI looks like an experiment to turn all pixels into clickable things. I think there is nice tech under the hood, but that's not what I'm looking for.

[JohnFen]

You should give it another try. It's improved a lot.

[Dead_Lemon]

Cinnamon seems to be forgotten/underappreciated, I really enjoy using it. I've tried a range of different desktops environments, and I end up finding cinnamon just does what I expect, with reasonable defaults.

[KronisLV]

> Cinnamon seems to be forgotten/underappreciated, I really enjoy using it. I've tried a range of different desktops environments, and I end up finding cinnamon just does what I expect, with reasonable defaults.

The Linux Mint Cinnamon version is actually pretty good: https://linuxmint.com/download.php

But also, XFCE has always worked well enough - it's lightweight, responsive and has most of the features you'd expect, albeit little to no eye candy.

[pjerem]

Cinnamon is pretty cool. It’s old school desktop paradigm but clean and modern looking. I urge anyone who likes XFCE to try Cinnamon.

My main issue with Cinnamon is that fractional scaling doesn’t work well (to be fair, it only works in Gnome and KDE) but since Cinnamon handle bigger text very well, I have a nice experience just by checking « bigger text » in accessibility settings (while XFCE will scale text up but will keep the rest - mostly icons - really tiny).

Other than that, it’s a labor of love.