{"id":238634,"date":"2026-05-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:05:09","slug":"i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"I left GNOME for COSMIC, tried KDE next, and only one felt right in the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end\/\">I left GNOME for COSMIC, tried KDE next, and only one felt right in the end<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Desktop environments can make or break your overall Linux experience, irrespective of the variant you\u2019re going to use. Personal preferences matter, and this is the very same conundrum I ran into when I decided to stick to Arch Linux.<\/p>\n<p>With so many options available, keeping track of it all can be quite a mess. I tried out a total of three desktop environments \u2014 GNOME, COSMIC and KDE Plasma, and after extensively playing around with all three, I think that I finally have a winner, even if it also has its own share of quirks.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">It&#8217;s fast, furious, and somewhat bonkers, but it gets the job done. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gnome\">\n                        GNOME<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"not-ideal-for-me\">\n            Not ideal for me<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                               &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-left-gnome-for-cosmic-tried-kde-next-and-only-one-felt-right-in-the-end\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left GNOME for COSMIC, tried KDE next, and only one felt right in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/cachyos-kde-aero.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71,79],"class_list":["post-238634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238636,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238634\/revisions\/238636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}