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One of the few moments I can appreciate a response critical of GNOME. You did not do the anti-GNOME/systemd counternormie dogwhistling, which is highly appreciated.
Its a tradeoff between performance + coherence and KDE level of customisability. Once your teenage hobbyist years are over, you move from stuff like KDE/XFCE to stuff like GNOME. And that's not to shit on hobbyists, but people who grow up simply do not have as much liberty for these pastime luxuries.
All I could do with GNOME is this, which I am fine with.
Unless you're writing ruby on rails on a 13" macbook, you'll run into Gnome's limitations when working.
Gnome is in many ways so focused that it makes a lot of productivity use impossible. You always have to open the menu to launch software, you've got no system tray, and worst of all, Gnome apps are so simplified that you constantly run into the limitations when using it productively.
When working with dozens of windows open at the same time across multiple monitors, I'm a fan of KDE. And KDE apps tend to also have all the extra features I need to handle weird situations, files, and edge cases.
You should see here my setup with GNOME extensions. They are popular, most maintained, and easily developed (netspeed, colour picker et al) in case GNOME version change puts them out of commission. KDE on Debian felt like a joke in terms of productivity compared to this, and Windows 10 debloated manages to compete well, since its context menu is easier to work with third party programs, and Explorer has FFmpeg baked into it allowing to sort images, audio and video files by any metadata criteria. (I need to use TC with plugins in WINE on Linux for this.)
Why'd you have to use TC? KDEs dolphin can do all that natively.
Personally, configuring KDE was much simpler and more robust compared to the dozen addons I needed for Gnome, which also broke every now and then after updates.
KDE is fucking vomit. I do not want one zillion dependencies for Dolphin along with its buggy garbage Baloo. KDE Connect atleast has GSConnect for GNOME with limited dependencies making it tolerable. I tried what you said last year, and it did not work.
I want to be able to sort videos by bitrate, for example, something which I can do natively in Windows Explorer, or use TC Extended under WINE. Only solution that worked, and I hoard data, and am a Windows-Linux dual user. (https://lemmy.ml/post/511377 This will give you an idea of my experience.)