I love Firefox and it’s my main browser on laptop and mobile.

But as a KDE user, seriously, fuck it. It’s a mess.

MacOS, or the joy of paying extra for shit that should be included OOTB, especially in an OS that every user profusely advertises as “just works”, “intuitive”, etc

BS

I’m not even sure full screen tiling can be called tiling at all.

I mean, I’m never gonna tile my kitchen floor with one GIANT tile.

Technically that’s still tiling, but it completely misses the point lol

Zero customisability and plenty of poor defaults.

My 4k€ company MBP 16" is sitting in my drawer while I use my personal XPS running opensuse. Feel right at home and much more productive than before.

As a KDE guy, indeed gnome is much more polished when it comes to gestures.

Problem is, I’m also much more of a keyboard guy, and use my laptop mostly docked and with external keyboard/mouse/monitor.

Touchpad is out of reach most of the time, so I don’t really care about gestures.

KDE uses less RAM, you can fact check quite easily.

Depending on the distro it ships with more or less stuff, but a few games, an office suite, media players for audio/video and in some cases a partition manager, are all necessary tools in any setup, at least in my book.

I don’t see the bloat.

Oh really? I didn’t know that! Guess it’s time to go do some reading, thanks for the TIL!

Timeshift <<< btrfs + snapper

Snapper comes (at least in TW) with snapper-grub, so yeah, you can go back to a working state from grub.

If an update botches your boot process, you’re SOL with Timeshift.

Probably the wrongest definition ever of Free software.

Here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

I really wish KDE would consider another base for their dev/showcase distro.

Fedora teamed up with the Asahi folks, maybe they’re open to supporting KDE too. Or opensuse, could totally see an opensuse based Neon.

Arch just works is a stretch, come on.

I appreciate the idea and the possibility of learning a lots of the internals.

But the just works idea IMO should extend to the setup process as well, and on arch it’s definitely not as easy as on most other distros.

Your logical inference is wrong.

I have a git repo for it, needless to say. And so README.md plus a network diagram from https://app.diagrams.net/