the only issues I had with KDE when I was recently using it all revolved around the panel. Random crashes with "too much" interaction. Adding widgets for the panel or desktop is still to this day hit or miss. clicking the "get new widget" option is a roll of the dice if it will actually work or not or even find the thing you want. It's still horrible at loading stuff in there. and installing whatever, again, is a roll of the dice if it will actually do it or not.

I like KDE, it's a good and solid DE but man do they really need to focus on fixing the panels and the installation/discovery of widgets. The alternative is using the pling store and that's just a headache on it's own.

Same. I always try it out and run into some critical bug causing me to abandon it.

My Linux Mint install with Cinnamon "just works", so I've been sticking with that and hoping Wayland support goes stable soon, because I hate X Server.

They are two opposite styles of UI.

However, KDE has a fuckton of customization possibilities that I have always been dreaming of in GNOME.

And I'm saying this as a GNOME guy, absolutely zero fanboyism here.

I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

(Although I would not call KDE ugly)

when I look at Gnome I don’t doubt for a second where I want to be

Yeah me neither, from the other side, lol

No. As a rule basically anything you see here that the right is "panicking" about is a nothing burger to them.

It's the same with their news feed, they get articles about how the left is "panicking" over shit nobody actually cares about.

More and more were hating fictionalized versions of each other and the ensuing culture war gives the 1% room to pave over our rights.

We're to the point now where the "wft I love/hate X now" meme isn't a joke. The culture war is fully driving people's values, not ideology.

This is the main reason why people vote for trump, they want to win the culture war and don't give a fuck about ideology.

Next time you see a headline or article ask yourself if you actually give a shit or if you're being told to give a shit. You'll be surprised how often it's the latter.

95% of the memes here (like this one) here are just strawmen for culture war fodder.

Man could you imagine if we had Google/MS bucks behind us? Instead it's like 30 people with $2 between us.

Google and Microsoft do not support the left at all.

They aren't it's just many programmers are nonbinary because that tends to go with intelligence. Not that being intelligent makes you nonbinary just that being intelligent makes it hard to be stupid and pretend like you are something other than yourself. Before the desert monoreligions took over nonbinary and queer identities were very prevalent in society. People were always gay and genderweird, but religion and authoritarianism and slave ethics made people think we are the weird ones when really they are the weird ones living a lie. They accuse us of "gender ideology" even though we barely even believe in gender and they are obsessed with it and gender roles. They accuse us of "gay ideology" even though we mostly keep it to ourselves and they build their entire identity on being "normal", and constantly badmouth us, which ironically they aren't even. They are repressed and confused and virtually lobotomized. They are motivated primarily by fear and acceptance. They are jealous and envious that someone else can be brave and be themselves when they are miserable little assholes who can never even stand up for themselves or even know a single true thing about themselves outside of the dark corner of their mind they reserve for masturbation.

They can never allow us fairness because if they did we would just completely dominate them and their entire culture. Most of us are not only intelligent but strong and honest. We are survivors. We are brave. We are principled. That's how we ended up becoming human in this ridiculous world of exploitation and gaslighting. We are beautiful because we actually care and take an interest in ourselves. We have good character because anyone will use any excuse, no matter how small to try to exclude us or get rid of us. They can't compete with us so they have to lie and other us as much as possible.

Yet if there is one thing that's going well in this world, people are at least learning to be and know themselves. People are quickly embracing their queerness and natural genders instead of this stupid nonsense from the past in the religious world. Modern humans are starting to become like the greeks and Romans and Persians and Egyptian again. Finally starting to be happy, and progress as a species, and we are finally starting to get back to that level of civilization after a near 2000 year dark age.

They support liberalism, not leftism.

They like making a big deal out of their tokenistic support of LGBT/BIPOC/etc, to distract from them trampling over workers rights.

In addition to people differentiating between leftism and liberalism:

Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead...

Communists are allowed to post on YouTube because YouTube gets ad revenue off of their content without meaningfully changing our ability to actually affect change, at least from YouTube’s perspective.