While I don't expect Fedora to switch to KDE, as someone who drives KDE daily from 3.5 days, I don't think current KDE 5.x family deserves the "a steaming, bug infested pile of crap" sentiment.
Yes, its default setup looks like Windows. Yes, 4.0 to 4.2 was the dark days (and the devs openly said that they're considered tech previews, back in the day).
However, when some spends some time with it and tunes it one's liking, it becomes a third hand. Dolphin handles tons of protocols and have features that makes 10+ applications unnecessary. Some of the "effects" are actually usability improvements, which are indispensable when someone starts to use them.
People may not like it, it may not be space efficient as some GNOME themes or macOS, but that thing works, doesn't crash, and improves productivity.
And, you don't change settings every day. I'm opening settings app so rarely that most of the settings either changed or evolved over time. I don't know what's where. I just use it the way I installed and tuned god knows when.
Plus KDE ecosystem has some of the best tools in its class. Did anyone give a good run to KATE and Konsole recently?
I don't use KDE (anymore), but I do use Konsole and gave Kate another shot about a year ago.
Konsole is the best multitabbed terminal in my experience on Linux. I tried more "modern" or fashionable ones, but Konsole works great all of the time on all of my systems and it supports all the features I want (including graphical output using sixel, which is something I use in my own prototype tools all the time).
Kate is fine now that it has LSP integration, but it still can't compete with something like the VSCode ecosystem for plugins and first-party support from software frameworks and programming language teams. So I've since gone back to using VS Codium.
Yes, its default setup looks like Windows. Yes, 4.0 to 4.2 was the dark days (and the devs openly said that they're considered tech previews, back in the day).
However, when some spends some time with it and tunes it one's liking, it becomes a third hand. Dolphin handles tons of protocols and have features that makes 10+ applications unnecessary. Some of the "effects" are actually usability improvements, which are indispensable when someone starts to use them.
People may not like it, it may not be space efficient as some GNOME themes or macOS, but that thing works, doesn't crash, and improves productivity.
And, you don't change settings every day. I'm opening settings app so rarely that most of the settings either changed or evolved over time. I don't know what's where. I just use it the way I installed and tuned god knows when.
Plus KDE ecosystem has some of the best tools in its class. Did anyone give a good run to KATE and Konsole recently?