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Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Re: Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

#3

Post by fareesh »

I've been using Kubuntu since 18.04. The performance has been good i.e. much better than Ubuntu w/ Gnome, and most things are relatively painless/intuitive to setup when needed.

KDE has some decent themes as well to get it to look a little more polished than the default theme.

Re: Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Post by s_kilk »

fareesh wrote: post #3

I've been using Kubuntu since 18.04. The performance has been good i.e. much better than Ubuntu w/ Gnome, and most things are relatively painless/intuitive to setup when needed. KDE has some decent themes as well to get it to look a little more polished than the default theme.

I'm in a similar boat, I used to use Xubuntu extensively, but have been on Kubuntu for the last while. KDE _feels_ light, and the metrics in System Monitor agree. So while the new Xubuntu release has piqued my interest, I'm not sure I actually need it any more. Today's KDE seems to fit right into the pocket of relatively light and relatively featureful.

Re: Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Post by viraptor »

fareesh wrote: post #3

I've been using Kubuntu since 18.04. The performance has been good i.e. much better than Ubuntu w/ Gnome, and most things are relatively painless/intuitive to setup when needed. KDE has some decent themes as well to get it to look a little more polished than the default theme.

This really came with kde5. I get why they started using the name "plasma desktop". It's almost completely different thing from kde4. Whatever options / expectations people had after kde4 and earlier, they just shouldn't apply.

Re: Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

s_kilk wrote: post #4
fareesh wrote: post #3

I've been using Kubuntu since 18.04. The performance has been good i.e. much better than Ubuntu w/ Gnome, and most things are relatively painless/intuitive to setup when needed. KDE has some decent themes as well to get it to look a little more polished than the default theme.

I'm in a similar boat, I used to use Xubuntu extensively, but have been on Kubuntu for the last while. KDE _feels_ light, and the metrics in System Monitor agree. So while the new Xubuntu release has piqued my interest, I'm not sure I actually need it any more. Today's KDE seems to fit right into the pocket of relatively light and relatively featureful.

last time I used kde was in 2002. I loved especially kmail and konqueror. Though I have eventually been turned off by the dependency hell of big DE's (not unique to kde and probably only an issue if you compile the DE yourself, ... though also annoying if you have 100+ base-packages/dependencies pulled in just because you want 1 tool).

after moving to i3 I find it hard to look back. the level of customization I can do with a tiling WM (also dwm, xmonad etc) is just insane. Makes more sense to me since most of the tools I use are lightweight, e.g. suckless (surf), a complete process tree after login now consists of:

  ?─┬─?───i3-wrapper───i3
  ├─sh───xautolock
  ├─sh───unclutter
  ├─sh───dunst───2*[{dunst}]
  ├─sh───i3bar───sh───python───{python}
  ├─sh───x-terminal-emul─┬─3*[bash]
  │                      ├─bash───pstree
  │                      └─6*[{x-terminal-emul}]
  └─systemd─┬─at-spi-bus-laun─┬─dbus-daemon
            │                 └─3*[{at-spi-bus-laun}]
            ├─at-spi2-registr───2*[{at-spi2-registr}]
            ├─dbus-daemon
            ├─dconf-service───2*[{dconf-service}]
            ├─dirmngr
            ├─gconfd-2
            ├─gvfs-udisks2-vo───2*[{gvfs-udisks2-vo}]
            ├─gvfsd─┬─gvfsd-trash───2*[{gvfsd-trash}]
            │       └─2*[{gvfsd}]
            ├─gvfsd-metadata───2*[{gvfsd-metadata}]
            ├─pulseaudio───2*[{pulseaudio}]
            └─tracker-store───4*[{tracker-store}]


  $> sudo smem -c pss -t | tail -1
    606032
^^^^ as commenter below pointed out this includes processes from other users. the correct figure is

  smem -c pss -t | tail -1
    220678
Use compton if you need some bells+whistles (transparency). If you want to get rid of X.org and use Wayland[0] just use sway[1] instead as drop-in replacement for i3.

[0] The real story behind Wayland and X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ

[1] https://swaywm.org/

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