I love the idea of kde, but damn. That thing is a piece of garbage. Never have I encountered so many buggy or non working features in software. It's been out for years but functions like it's still in alpha.
Gnome is stable but so boring to look at.
Is xfce worth it? How buggy is it compared to other shells? I just want something that works the way it's supposed to.
Posted Jun 30, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC
I'd say it's pretty "stable" considering it's almost the same desktop it was back in 2003, I mean they started transitioning to Gtk3 in 2015 or something...
It used to be a pretty okayish Gtk desktop for lower end hardware, but nowadays it's heavier than KDE itself and besides that there's also better alternatives for that use case.
If you like simple traditional desktops there's nothing wrong with it, but there's also absolutely nothing fancy about it and its development speed can only be compared to that of GIMP.
Xfce is very stable compared to KDE. However, I haven't encountered any bugs in KDE so it's safe to assume that both desktop environments are very stable. It all comes down to what type of design and features you want.
Very stable, and light on resources. It's also been around virtually unchanged for a long time, which could be a good or bad thing depending on the user.
I've been using Xfce for years, and the only instable part of my system right now is my GPU driver.
I have an AMD APU, and the latest kernel version added a really nasty bug.
AMD APU, and the latest kernel version added a really nasty bug.
Welcome to the AMD experience
This sounds scary!!
I'm quite shocked you feel that way about KDE. Are you on a 3 year old version baked into some obscure distro?
But anyways, if you're on KDE 5.17+ and still feel that way XFCE sounds great for you. Much more stable with a handful of simpler features.
Nope. Manjaro. Kde is broke af. Sorry I triggered your fanboyism.
Broken for you, not for the rest of us.
I think that's more of a manjaro problem. When i tried it crashed much more than kde neon which almost never crashes
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I believe that's the case, I had before a repo. package that works flawlessly in Arch but doesn't run in Manjaro, and take the fact that Manjaro is always behind in updates.
I am forced to use kde on manjaro. KDE has always been stable man on wayland. All of my problems are due to buying a suport cheap laptop without good software support.