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7/9/2025, 10:58:18 PM
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This is more of a rant but I recently tried KDE Plasma after years of using other DE/WM and I didn't like it. I had always seen anons claim Plasma was THE BEST desktop environment out there, but didn't really give it a chance until now.
>UI/UX
My biggest gripe would be the System settings, it feels like they put everything in the wrong place for shits and giggles. Why are the system sounds in "Colors and themes"?? in fact, the actual settings for the system sounds are in a complete separate place. On Cinnamon you go to System settings > Sounds and there you go, everything is there. Then I wanted to get rid of those useless buttons on the title bars (pin windows, help), so I thought the settings were in the "Windows" section, but no; once again, they're located under Colors and themes > Decorations and then in a random hamburger menu at the top right corner of the UI, just what the fuck?
>Bloat
I know this is somewhat of a buzzword nowadays but I don't understand why installing something as simple as a Terminal emulator requires me to also install the components for a digital wallet, email, vlc and who knows what else. The system itself also takes about an extra GB of Ram for me (compared to Cinnamon or XFCE), which I know for many isn't a lot, but it's not like I'm getting more useful features in return.
>Packages
I don't know if this is an Arch-only issue, but why the fuck do I have to install things like kscreen, plasma-nm or plasma-pa to get functionality which should be installed along with the system by default??
>Misc
Minor issues would be the calendar being extremely big for some reason, the tiling behaviour, and sddm looking ugly by default. Plasma has some really good things overall, but I ended up coming back to Cinnamon. Thanks for reading my blog.
This is more of a rant but I recently tried KDE Plasma after years of using other DE/WM and I didn't like it. I had always seen anons claim Plasma was THE BEST desktop environment out there, but didn't really give it a chance until now.
>UI/UX
My biggest gripe would be the System settings, it feels like they put everything in the wrong place for shits and giggles. Why are the system sounds in "Colors and themes"?? in fact, the actual settings for the system sounds are in a complete separate place. On Cinnamon you go to System settings > Sounds and there you go, everything is there. Then I wanted to get rid of those useless buttons on the title bars (pin windows, help), so I thought the settings were in the "Windows" section, but no; once again, they're located under Colors and themes > Decorations and then in a random hamburger menu at the top right corner of the UI, just what the fuck?
>Bloat
I know this is somewhat of a buzzword nowadays but I don't understand why installing something as simple as a Terminal emulator requires me to also install the components for a digital wallet, email, vlc and who knows what else. The system itself also takes about an extra GB of Ram for me (compared to Cinnamon or XFCE), which I know for many isn't a lot, but it's not like I'm getting more useful features in return.
>Packages
I don't know if this is an Arch-only issue, but why the fuck do I have to install things like kscreen, plasma-nm or plasma-pa to get functionality which should be installed along with the system by default??
>Misc
Minor issues would be the calendar being extremely big for some reason, the tiling behaviour, and sddm looking ugly by default. Plasma has some really good things overall, but I ended up coming back to Cinnamon. Thanks for reading my blog.
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