KDE vs KDE Mobile

[dos2unix]

I have been using MATE and Gnome for years. I recently started using KDE Plasma 6.2 a couple of months ago.
I have been using it on a Desktop system, it's taken a little while, but I'm getting used to it.

Recently I installed this on a Laptop. From the same installer USB. I was expecting everything to look and fell the same.
But no, it seems on Laptops, KDE mobile is the default desktop installed. My menu bar is missing from the bottom.
There is no application menu. Now instead of a menu, I get rows of icons, much like Gnome.

Is this a new thing, or has KDE always had this option? In any case, I have the option of KDE Standard and KDE Mobile at
my login screen. I guess you're never too old to learn something new. I wonder if people who install KDE on laptops
assume this is how it looks on desktops.

 

[dos2unix]

Does one of these remind you of Gnome? Both are KDE.

 

[KGIII]

The first image does look a bit like GNOME. The 2nd is more towards my preferences, that is a status/application/notification menu on the bottom with an application menu on the bottom left.

Those are my preferences, that and a system-wide dark mode.

 

[dos2unix]

You can choose which environment you want when you login.

 

[KGIII]

I haven't played with KDE in a while. Right now, my bandwidth is pretty constricted.

Soon I'll be able to resume playing with many distros. As they'll take mere minutes to download, I will play with all of them.

I used to sort of provide an archive. I'd run my torrent client on a box dedicated to just that and I'd dump various distros and versions on the box so that people could download them. I was even motivated enough to submit the torrent file at the various torrent sites so that more people could download them.

It was pretty much a Linux seedbox but run at my home instead of renting a remote server. My upload bandwidth wasn't great, but it was enough.

Then, for reasons (specifically they made me angry), I boycotted the DSL provider and no other provider would provide service for my (very) remote location - even though they were perfectly free to do so given Maine's laws. Many didn't even seem to know the laws.

I complained to the PUC and they slapped the DSL provider on the wrist. This did nothing to help me, but it made me feel marginally better and made me feel much better about the current people in power in my area. (I'll avoid details 'cause politics is off-limits.)