01-07-2025, 10:10 AM
(30-06-2025, 11:26 AM)nzoomed Wrote: As far as KDE goes, i too kind of miss the KDE3 era, but I still prefer it over GNOME, XFCE looks a good contender though.
I would definitely rather use current KDE over Gnome, but I prefer XFCE to both in its simplicity, speed, and apparent immunity to 'change for the sake of change'.
(30-06-2025, 11:26 AM)nzoomed Wrote: There were a lot of radical changed when KDE4 was introduced and caused a split in the community, (trinity desktop environment is essentially a fork of KDE3.5) lots of themes etc were not compatible and never got migrated over, I still feel there is still a gap here to fill.
What stuck out the most for me was the performance, and the higher system requirements. I feel that Windows Aero was much better performing than KDE4 at the time.
Trinity is not bad but I was never fully onboard with how KDE feels anyway, so I wouldn't go to the trouble of installing it, it's nice that it's there though.