5 Reasons KDE Is Better Than Unity

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5 pointsbigmetalman3 comments

Oh my god, this is so sad. What has the Linux-on-desktop world come to? "You can manage your windows with it" is actually an advantage.

On a lighter note, if there is still hope, it lies in the little not-so-popular desktop environments like XFCE. Those both have sane UI and are not ugly pieces of bloatware.

xfce might not be "bloatware", but it also lacks some things. The atrocious "support" for keyboard layout switching comes to mind. Short of writing your own scripts that directly call setxkbmap with parameters added by hand, you have no chance of having this working properly. (And yes, I know there is a plugin, and no, it still doesn't make it work)

That alone makes xfce absolutely unusable to me, although it is otherwise very nice.

Another nice feature concerning "you can manage your windows with it" is KDE's default ctrl+f8 desktop grid, that actually makes handling multiple desktops really easy and really lovely to use.

You know what? Unity is a disaster. GNOME 3 isn't much better. But for me that still makes KDE not even an option I would consider.

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