After many years on GNOME, I finally submitted to Plasma supremacy.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

Huh, I thought Latte dock had wrapped up with 6.

[amaterasu@lemmy.world]

I'm not a KDE user, is it possible to have the upper bar all the way up without showing the wallpaper above?

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

It's Debian so I'm on 5.

[2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yes, in fact that's the default for panels.

[muhyb@programming.dev]

Yes, basically pretty much everything you may want is possible. OP just uses the bar in floating mode.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

Ah, makes sense.

[azvaskvklenko@sh.itjust.works]

On 6 you can have similar experience to Latte with just the panel minus the animations and some of its customizations

[brianary@startrek.website]

KDE: With too much power comes too much responsibility.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

This literally just looks like gnome with extra steps…

[pastermil@sh.itjust.works]

Welcome to the club!

For me it feels more like Windows 7 instead.

[1984@lemmy.today]

I used to switch between plasma and gnome but that stopped with plasma 6. It was so good that it just became my primary. Now gnome feels bad when I try it. Everything looks bad there. No proper fractional scaling support, no hdr support etc etc.

[guenther_amanita@slrpnk.net]

Same. I still really love Gnome with my heart, but it just felt... inferior... compared to Gnome.

Everything looked sharper, like if I had switched from 720p to 4k, I could access my hardware better (e.g. control the brightness of my monitor, etc.) and much more.

[spicytuna62@lemmy.world]

And that's fine. I said I really liked gnome. The only extensions I had were weather in the top bar and dash to dock. I just wanted it to do a few extra things, and I wanted to play around with widgets. Gnome was also a bit too rigid for my taste. Plasma makes tweaking small things a joy.

For me, ootb Plasma felt too much like Windows. I use Windows all day at work so I want my home machines to look and feel completely unlike Windows.

[redstonevalley@sh.itjust.works]

As a (Plasma based) Kubuntu user I was wondering as well. Looks like they tried to emulate the gnome look and feel in the picture. In Kubuntu the default taskbar is at the bottom and the floating application bar doesn't exist

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

What dock are you using?

[mski@lemmy.ca]

I just switched from GNOME to Plasma in the past week, after a long time on gnome, and Plasma 6 is great. The only thing I miss so far is viewing all my windows on the desktop when I push the meta key - alt-tab seems clunky in comparison.

Any suggestions there?

[kurcatovium@lemm.ee]

Meta + w

I believe it's called "overview" in shortcut section.

[bitwolf@sh.itjust.works]

Any chance you've replicated gnomes dynamic workspaces?

[mski@lemmy.ca]

Amazing - Thanks for that!

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You can also change it to literally anything you want.