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

[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.

[kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml]

GNOME lost the plot when they abandoned the 2.x design philosophy.

[mski@lemmy.ca]

Plasma is great for the flexibility (shortcuts), and so easy these days.

I was searching for task switcher, expose, etc. And just completely gapped on searching 'overview'. (Web searches didn't show it either, possibly because it's too simple, so nobody posts about it.)

Next up I might have to play some window tiling (e.g. like i3, sway & hyprland).

[mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works]

Care to explain what that is?

[themoken@startrek.website]

GNOME 3 introduced the current shell paradigm where you don't really have a start menu but a variety of searches, integrated indicators, per-app desktops with a dock etc.

Before, it was far more conventional experience like Plasma/Windows/Cinnamon are now. GNOME 2 was forked to be the MATE desktop if you want to check it out.

[waterwaiver@aussie.zone]

GNOME 2 was fun and easy. It felt like they were trying to learn from the mistakes of Windows and Mac UIs.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

I'm the opposite, after plasma I went gnome

Better than any plasma experience I tried to craft myself – and it's the default setting – so I have no reason to come back. But I still could switch, as long as cosmic is good

[routhinator@startrek.website]

You don't need special docks in KDE, its all configurable through the default desktop settings. You have enough knobs to make it look like anything.

[curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Totally fine to have KDE set up aesthetically as you please.

They like how gnome looks, not as much how it works.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

You should have tried Dash to Panel instead of Dash to Dock, based on your preferences. That plus Wintile is what keeps me on Gnome vs Plasmathese days.

[john89@lemmy.ca]

I totally agree.

[john89@lemmy.ca]

Gnome devs shouldn't have put the onus of adding settings onto addon developers...

Never going to forgive those fools for having something like "gnome tweak tools" be recommended to so many users without them adding an official implementation.

[txtechnician@lemmy.ml]

I tried gnome for a bit. I really liked the workflow. But the over simplification of the interface just killed me.

I got tired of it. And took the things I like from gnome and implemented them in plasma. (Swipe for virtual desktops for example)

[shirro@aussie.zone]

I recognize many of the deficiencies of Gnome but on balance I still like using it.

I never migrated from Windows or Mac desktop. I got into Linux before WIndows 95 came out and although I had used Mac and Amiga desktops I never owned one myself. I have used tiling wms and plain wms with no desktop environment and I can find my way around on Windows 11 or Mac but I don't like either as much as Gnome. KDE generally has a better foundation thanks largely thanks to qt but I never enjoyed using KDE. Not surprised it is very popular with the new influx of Windows refugees. To me KDE always had a slightly dated Windows look and feel to it. It is still a very solid choice ofcourse.

Gnome hate became fashionably when they moved forward from Gnome 2 and some people never shut up about it. We get it. Your favorite band aren't teenagers anymore and decided to make an album you don't like. it is ancient history. Just use something else guys.

[atek@lemm.ee]

That looks amazing! Can you tell je how you did it?
Everytime i start to tweak with the taskbar/dock/statusbar it comes out chonky and doesnt work. All i want i the same look as you have, but ive never come close!