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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (10 children)

plasma has wayland support, tons of customizability, better multi monitor support, a great suite of applications including a text editor with lsp support and much more, and in general looks nicer. cinnamon is sort of the bare minimum

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (7 children)

better multi monitor support

I run a 3x1 setup and KDE didn't handle it any better than Cinnamon did.

Wayland support is coming to Mint. You can actually use it on 21.3 right now but it is unstable.

Rest of what you said is opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

the rest also isn't just an opinion, cinnamon does not have an equivalent to kdenlive, krita, or kate. even the existing applications are just not on the same level. it's an acceptable desktop, but plasma and gnome are just better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why would I care what software KDE comes with? This is Linux. I can install whatever works best for me. Including the whole of KDE software suite if I so chose. You KDE fans are voracious.

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