[ITwork2019]

KDE plasma being the basis of Linux is BS. Why not test on gnome as well. KDE has always been bigger, more complex and slower

[ahartmetz]

Disclaimer: I'm a KDE user and mostly-inactive developer.

KDE has always been about the same size as Gnome in LOC and performance has been +/- the same as well, KDE just has more exposed settings which confuses people to think it's "bigger". At the time of Gnome shell in JS, KDE had much less performance trouble than Gnome, now they are about the same again.

There is a thing that Gnome has going for it regarding Wayland, which is that Wayland has been the default on Gnome for much longer, so yes, for the time being it has fewer problems there. KDE is improving rather quickly, but it has not caught up yet.

So Gnome is the showcase for Wayland right now and it should be used to evaluate what Wayland can and cannot do.

As a KDE user, I am personally holding out on X11 for a little longer because I don't need great fractional scaling and multi-monitor support, so Wayland buys me little.

[jonesyharry]

KDE for some time now it is faster than gnome. I think the test in KDE it is because Wayland it is the default in Plasma 6

[xcdzvyn]

Testing multiple DEs would be great but I think there's merit to calling Plasma more Linux-y (or hacker-y?) than GNOME.

[sevagh]

>Testing multiple DEs would be great but I think there's merit to calling Plasma more Linux-y (or hacker-y?) than GNOME.

Give some reasons? Or is it just a "hunch", like also people who dislike systemd are hacker-y, or people who dislike sudo are hacker-y,?

[ahartmetz]

I think it's because KDE has more of a "have it your way" attitude rather than "we know best".