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by skinnycow 4576 days ago
Nonsense. There are, at best, a handful of desktop environments targeted at daily desktop users: Unity, KDE, Gnome-Shell, maybe LXDE/Razor if you're being generous.

I've love to hear a single specific complaint about an experience you had with KDE that isn't "it was different from windows", especially given that it's the closest to the Windows daily interactions.
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venomsnake 4576 days ago
Unity, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, Gnome 3, and I have tried to just go with openbox and Tint2.

First - it is different than windows is absolutely valid complaint. Having to tweak muscle memory is highly unpleasant.

A single problem with KDE - windows key cannot be mapped to show the start menu without extension.

Second is that all the taskbars that I found for it were just worse than the windows one in multimonitor setup or ugly.

Also Alt+Tab worked inconsistently.

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skinnycow 4576 days ago
>A single problem with KDE - windows key cannot be mapped to show the start menu without extension.

AFAIK, that's an X limitation. Already fixed in KDE5/KF5/PW2. Very annoying though, I've retrained myself for Super+Space as my hotkey instead.

>Second is that all the taskbars that I found for it were just worse than the windows one in multimonitor setup or ugly.

Hm, not sure what's up there. My KDE setup is identical to my work Windows setup. Taskbar on each monitor with "start" menu button and the icon-only task manager. Then the panel on my main monitor has my sys tray. Other than obvious icon differences, it's damn near identical to Windows (at least the way 8.1 does the taskbar on all monitors).

>Alt+Tab worked inconsistently

o_0 in KDE? KDE's default alt-tab is identical to Windows's. In Gnome-shell, it acts like OS X's Cmd-Tab. But either way, you can tweak the window switcher to work exactly the way you like- include all windows, only restored windows, switch between apps or windows, etc, etc.

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adamors 4576 days ago
He probably never tried KDE or gave up after 5 minutes. I found that KDE's multi monitor setup is much better than Windows 7's, it's good to hear that in 8.1 you can have taskbars on every monitor.
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