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When you get tired of Distrohopping (lemmy.world)
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (8 children)

After testing LM with Cinnamon, and a ubuntu based distribution with KDE… KDE is just better.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven't explored KDE much.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The interface looks more recent. Also I can use Wayland, as X11 can be a pain with scaling or specific setups

    Apart from that, there are good default apps (although you can download KDE's stuff anyways), KDE is pretty transparent as an organization. Things like notifications are more sexy than cinnamon. Built in options like Win+P showing screen display works just like windows

    Good animations, a good range of default widgets and taskbar config for my needs (it’s pretty limited imo but it’s enough for me)

    Terminal is great but I got some problems like .sh scripts not showing a window but just running in background when double clicked. Apart from that, Kate (default editor), Konsole (terminal) are well built

    They also have built in support for Nextcloud sync icons in the file browser, which is nice

    I prefer the update manager of Mint but no big deal (can’t update only one package in KDE's GUI)

    Things like managing battery and connecting to Bluetooth devices is beautiful. Everything feels premium, fast, sleek.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    Is it KDE Neon? I've been curious if it's any good, haven't tried. It's just Ubuntu LTS with Plasma.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    It isn’t! I used TuxedoOS.

    The main reason was that I have a tuxedo laptop, but they also adopted the same moves as mint: mirrored Ubuntu’s repos for privacy, and disabled snap by default. Also, moved ping/internet connectivity check to their own server.

    I do believe the packages are a bit outdated but same problem on Mint

    I think KDE Neon is more up to date with the packages but still use the default servers, so Canonical gets some of your pings

    Btw tuxedo should work just fine on a non-tuxedo device. The custom optimizations should stay disabled

    Also, as others have talked about it, it’s not bleeding edge KDE but stable KDE, but it’s a recent version so the desktop environment feels modern

    Sorry for the slow response, I was busy

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Oh cool! I had completely forgotten about the Tuxedo devices. No worries on the slow reply, I've got three month old comments in my inbox that I swear I'll get around to crafting a respectable reply to any day now, I swear 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    kde neon is their testbed I believe, but there are other distros shipping it too.

    opensuse leap and thumbleweed defaults to installing kde plasma. leap is the slower moving version, thumbleweed is the bleeding edge rolling release distro, if you want to try it.

    fedora has a kde edition, that too seems to be stable, maybe its more polished too

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