Counterpoint: KDE is literally the best to ever do it and none even compare

Be the most versatile and usable DE with the best applications

Also works on my machine (14 year old thinkpad)

It wants to be feature rich, configurable, and flexible

GNOME already has the Apple "we know better than you so it's our way or the highway" design strategy down to an art

Am I not reading your question right? Just quote the variable and filenames with spaces work fine.

for i in *; do
    cat "$i" ;
done

Tribalism is fun

A t420, but yes

It's not my main machine but it is my only laptop, and sticking an extra 8gb of ram and an ssd in it was all it needed to become very responsive even for modern software. Unless you're playing video games or doing some heavyweight media editing projects, those older CPUs and GPUs can cope better than one might expect

Shame that they gave in to the haters, single click is great. Far more intuitive too, as you'd immediately tell if you ever had to guide your parents around a computer constantly reminding them in which arbitrary situation you're meant to double click and in which to single click.