Windows 10 exiles fear not, KDE is here!

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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'.

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.

I know what you mean.
I believe that KDE 5 and up is now much more lightweight.
My biggest gripe is the lack of themes with plasma.
And many appear buggy and have glitches, I will provide some screenshots later.
For example, I can't get any transparent themes to work and it needs an add on called kvantium, but I can't seem to get it working so I gave up.
Many window decorations look glitch around the edges and I'm not sure whats up with that either.
From memory, I had less issues with this with Ubuntu.