s20, 3 months ago to KDE

Ooooh... why did I say I'd use KDE for 2 weeks? Can I shorten that to one?

This is just adjustment pain talking, I know, but wow. I might love how #KDE looks, but actually working with it is not fun for me. Nothing works the way I expect it to.

But CO, don't you just mean "meh! nOt GnoMe! mE No LiKeY!"

I mean... yeah. That's what I mean. From the very first time I tried #Gnome 3 (like, ten or twelve years ago), everything about it has felt natural to me. The changes that have been made over the years leading up to Gnome 45 today have all more or less worked for me. The way it works just meshes with my brain somehow, and it's very comfortable to work in.

Plasma is none of that, and I don't know why I'm putting myself through this. Don't get me wrong: I adore the KDE project. It's a gorgeous, feature-packed, ultimately configurable #DesktopEnvironment. The problem for me personally is that I just don't need about 75% of those features, and the default setups don't function the way my brain does.

So in short, I might be cutting this experiment short, not because KDE is bad, but because Gnome feels like home.

Which is weird, because I hated Gnome 2, which I thought of as a more difficult to work with, less resource efficient version of #XFCE.

Oh, yeah, and #KaOS? It's fine. It's super-fine-tuned and dedicated to its mission of being a cutting edge KDE desktop. Which is great if that's what you want, but there's a fine line between dedication and obsession.

I prefer it to dealing with Arch, though, if I'm being honest - specifically because of that obsession. Everything official is tight, works together, and accomplishes the stated goal of the OS. Even the KCP repo is on board for the most part, and it all comes together. If someone did something like this for Gnome/GTK, it'd probably be my OS of choice.