Hello everybody! I was thinking of switching from GNOME to KDE Plasma on my laptop. The main things keeping me from switching are

  • Touchpad Gestures
  • Dynamic Workspaces

Since I have a pretty beefy machine, dynamic workspaces are more an optional than anything but if there’s something unnegotiable to me, especially for a laptop experience, is the touchpad experience which must me at least viable. So what has been your experience? Please I need your opinion

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    8·
    5 months ago

    Anything you can do in GNOME you can do in Plasma.

    Just beware that for the first time in your GNU/Linux life, you can CHOOSE how everything works, instead of being forced into a specific paradigm. For some reason some GNOME users find it disturbing 😅 (it’s a joke guys calm down).

  • derbolle@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    i have kde on a ThinkPad x1 yoga and the experience from plasma 5 to 6 got a whole lot smoother. try it Out. could ne that you need to configure a few things but its awesome

  • Leonard Menzel :pdh_bird:@social.menzel.lol
    1·
    5 months ago

    @super_user_do on my laptop plasma works perfectly fine. Touchpad gestures are great. Dynamic workspaces don’t exist but there may be a third party script for that. You mentioned you have a beefy Maschine. If that means you have an Nvidia GPU the experience may not be that good. On my desktop with Nvidia Wayland simply doesn’t work and on X the Touchpad gestures are missing. Also, if it’s a convertible be careful. On my tablet the touchscreen gestures are a bit buggy

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    11·
    5 months ago

    Touchpad gestures are good, but you have to Google to configure everything. It’s not done out of the box like with GNOME

    • super_user_doOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      I just installed it in this very moment and I’m texting you from the new Fedora KDE Spin installation - Touchpad gestures work ootb, I just find some design choices kinda… uhm, questionable I’d say. Nevertheless, it runs fine overall!