KDE is now my favorite desktop

1. labwc

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   A Wayland window-stacking compositor

   

   I recommend that you try labwc. It's lean and supports Openbox themes.

   I switched from X11 and LXDE to Sway and had a good experience. But Sway was my slippery slope to labwc.

   https://github.com/labwc/labwc

2. SaaSHub

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3. ExplorerPatcher

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   This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

   

   Windows 11 has horrible defaults that keep getting worse with each service pack. To survive in a Windows VM I run, the first thing I install is always a horrible hack to restore flexibility: [1].

   [1] https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki

4. zed

   3 306 88,639 10.0 Rust

   Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

   

   One thing I'm happy with in KDE is that the menu is still a thing. At least there is an option in many apps, such as the file manager, Dolphin to show the menu. Unlike Gnome which is very inconsistent about hamburger menus and open buttons, KDE just sticks to the old-fashioned menu bar. In this it is like MacOS, (although if you don't use a Mac you mightn't be aware of the universality of the main menu, because screenshots of apps often don't include the menu)[1].

   [1] e.g. see the screenshots at https://zed.dev/

5. ux

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   I was under the impression that Inkscape explicitly doesn't follow the gnome guidelines.

   That's why every few months, there's a proposal to redesign it which trades usability for minimalism. Here's one I pulled from a random Google search:

   https://gitlab.com/inkscape/ux/-/issues/236

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