[jacek]

I am so grateful to KDE developers and developers who work on the whole ecosystem around it.

After years of using Gnome, I got fed up with problems at every upgrade, and switched to KDE Plasma. Suddenly everything just works as expected. Including fractional scaling, which still can be pain in the neck on Linux.

I recently donated to KDE and would encourage you to do the same [1]. I'll keep doing that occasionally.

[1] https://kde.org/community/donations/

[raverbashing]

True, Gnome is an exercises in lack of polish (or worse, quirky behaviour usually justified by some very weird way of thinking that doesn't match 99% of other people)

[bandrami]

It's not that the Gnome team gets features wrong (every desktop software project does that) it's that they absolutely insist on dying on every single interface hill they find themselves on.

[raverbashing]

Hah, exactly that! You put it better than I could have had.

[Tactician_mark]

If you'll indulge me an anecdote, my first KDE experience was noticing the icons were too small, setting fractional scaling, and watching the entire desktop bug out requiring several restarts. I immediately switched to GNOME, noticed fractional scaling wasn't an option (by default), and just left the small icons alone - which I've now gotten used to.

I think that's a good allegory for the philosophy behind an opinionated desktop.

[jacek]

You need to use Wayland instead of X11 for fractional scaling. On Gnome, you need to enable it first.

[dormento]

You know, I was ready to disagree but then it dawned on me that i don't use any of the pack-in software that comes with gnome (the desktop). My workflow largely depends on other tools (which might use gnome libs truth be told), but i could probably change my session manager, desktop, window manager and the like with fewer papercuts than i think.