KDE Plasma is a simple and highly customizable desktop environment built mainly for UNIX like operating systems such as Linux. Standard plasma follows the usual conventions of a taskbar along the bottom edge with the clock and a system tray like area on the right. Programs retain their own menus in their topbars.
This is easily modifiable with add-ons like Latte Dock, if you want a mac like interface. Bleh, not me, but the beauty of KDE is that you can do with it what you like and make it look as simple or as crazy as you want.
For example, Garuda Linux, one of my favorite distributions, has a KDE Dr460nized verrsion, with a mac like interface and dock, that is simply stunning. Add the desktop effects like background blur, wobbly windows, and a few other things that it provides, and it turns the heads of any computer user that sees it running on your desktop.
Personally I have a huge monitor so moving everything in the menu to the top is inconvenient for me, as running an ultrawide setup means i tend to show more then a few windows at a time, so hunting for the top bar say, when I’m processing an image in gimp, is a pain.
For those of you thinking of migrating from windows to Linux, KDE Plasma is a viable choice of desktop environments because your muscle memory works just fine. Your clock, your menu button, everything are in a similar place that you are accustomed with as a windows user.
KDE uses Dophin as a file manager, which is a full featured “Windows Explorer” like experience, with some differences that take some getting used to, but power users will quickly come to love.
KDE has a lot going for it, including excellent peer support, constant developer improvements to the project with bug fixes, AND its free and open source.
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