[nycticorax]

Andreas Kling has said that one of his inspirations for SerenityOS was the Windows 2000 UI (https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/). I found his general goal for SerenityOS ("Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix.") to be strangely validating ('Wait... So it's not just me?!'). And so of course I decided to try out the KDE desktop, which I had always kinda dismissed as being a bit too much of a niche within a niche. And it's great. It really is wonderful to use an OS that is designed from the ground up for serious technical users. And the ubiquity of web apps nowadays makes Linux a far more practical choice than it was back in the day.

[Narishma]

Even KDE has started to fall into the modern UI trappings. For example the taskbar somewhat recently became rounded and detached from the screen edges making it more annoying to reach the start button or the clock widget. But at least you can still configure it to how it used to be.

[wpm]

KDE is chock full of too-flat interfaces and hieroglyphs as icons, all the sins are on fully display there.

Its saving grace is that it is completely customizable for the most part, though any GTK apps will probably ignore everything.

[seba_dos1]

> making it more annoying to reach the start button or the clock widget

That's not true; the corners/edges are only visually detached, they're still active for input.

[amadeuspagel]

You're right to point this out, but it's still more annoying because you now have to remember that consciously, rather then seeing and feeling that you can just move your mouse to the edge.

[seba_dos1]

Well, I don't particularly like it myself so I don't use it, it takes literally four clicks to disable panel floating.

[amadeuspagel]

I didn't know that but now I did it.

[Narishma]

That's even worse then, because there's a conflict between what's displayed and how you interact with it.

[kristianp]

My only pain with KDE is trying to resize windows. I have a 1 pixel line a certain distance away from the outside of the window. I'm using an oldish version from kubuntu 22.04 though.

[kubik369]

I might be able to help you with that. Whilst holding Meta (Windows key), try left and right-click-dragging on a window. Left-click-drag moves the window, right-click-drag resizes it. Great feature imo, for me, this flow solves any resizing issues.

[doubled112]

You can configure the window border size.

https://docs.kde.org/stable_kf6/en/kwin/kcontrol/kwindecorat...

[seba_dos1]

> which I had always kinda dismissed as being a bit too much of a niche within a niche

KDE has been one of the two big, by far the most popular FLOSS DEs for decades, even predating the other one; how could it be "a niche within a niche"?

[forestingfisher]

I love SerenityOS so much, I wish someone ported it as a DE to the Linux kernel so I could daily it