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[โ€“] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Iโ€™ve gotta be honest, the desktop environment situation on Linux does not impress me.

Iโ€™m on Cosmic which is decent, but there are all sorts of silly oversights in KDE and gnome, and windows have weird mixes of styles and toolbar display modes.

Is great that Linux is modular, but seriously gtk vs QT vs whatever else needs a heavy duty cleanup.

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    I agree, however Windows and macOS are even worse IMO. Everything is just totally inconsistent (Windows) and the window management features are very barebones (both). Using either one feels like going back 10 years or more.

    The CSD trend might have some upsides but i find it mainly just makes apps ugly and any added functionality is almost always redundant.

    Kvantum really helps make Plasma more consistent, not sure if there is a similar addon for GNOME

    Edited for clarity

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Up to macOS 26 (the latest OS with Liquid Glass) consistency was great. Youโ€™d have to go back to the PowerPC era or X11 integration to find issues. Now I have windows with different toolbar button sizes and corner radii and itโ€™s stupid as hell.

    I agree on window management tools, but I used third party ones on Mac for a decade and they worked okay. Obviously not as good as i3 type ones.

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