This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
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This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
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#2This is all awesome stuff. Slick wallpaper too.
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#3I've been using Kubuntu at home and work for over four years now, and it has been a stable and productive experience. The only significant difficulty I can recall was immediately after upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10, where GRUB was having difficulty with a Secure Boot extension. I should have waited for the 19.10.1 release, but the issue was relatively easy to fix by commenting out a line in GRUB config.
I really believe that Ubuntu and Kubuntu are reaching a high level of simplicity and stability where they can be adopted or at least tried out by people who are more casual computer users (or who just want to stay productive.)
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#4Anyone thinking about using Linux on their desktop or laptop should give latest KDE a try. Rolling release distros like Arch or OpenSuse Tumbleweed should be good options.
Reasons you may like it - no new paradigm bs to learn just your plain old customizable desktop, it’s stable(they’re fixing stuff like crazy every week), if you don’t like something they are making contributing to / building KDE components very easy, HiDPI support is about the best - partial scaling, per desktop DPI works great at least on X11 and finally they are making running GTK apps a great experience with Plasma 5.18.
Re: This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
#5I've been using Kubuntu at home and work for over four years now, and it has been a stable and productive experience. The only significant difficulty I can recall was immediately after upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10, where GRUB was having difficulty with a Secure Boot extension. I should have waited for the 19.10.1 release, but the issue was relatively easy to fix by commenting out a line in GRUB config. I really beli…
A casual computer user is going to figure out they need to comment out a GRUB line?
Nope. That is an experience that will push them right back to OSX or Windows.
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#6I’m most excited KDE/Plasma on the mobile. Once people get Linux working smoothly on the Pinephone, etc I think the Plasma interface could be a sane default that’s already available.
Re: This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
#7Anyone thinking about using Linux on their desktop or laptop should give latest KDE a try. Rolling release distros like Arch or OpenSuse Tumbleweed should be good options. Reasons you may like it - no new paradigm bs to learn just your plain old customizable desktop, it’s stable(they’re fixing stuff like crazy every week), if you don’t like something they are making contributing to / building KDE components very easy…
> Rolling release distros like Arch or OpenSuse Tumbleweed should be good options.
KDE Neon is perfect. It has the simplicity, familiarity, and stability of the latest Ubuntu LTS, on which it is based, combined with the evergreen KDE desktop.
Re: This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
#8I've been using Kubuntu at home and work for over four years now, and it has been a stable and productive experience. The only significant difficulty I can recall was immediately after upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10, where GRUB was having difficulty with a Secure Boot extension. I should have waited for the 19.10.1 release, but the issue was relatively easy to fix by commenting out a line in GRUB config. I really beli…
A casual computer user is going to figure out they need to comment out a GRUB line? Nope. That is an experience that will push them right back to OSX or Windows.
Darwin and NT x.0 releases have the same tenancy to break, the same advice to wait for x.0.1, and less ability to fix it yourself.
Re: This week in KDE: Converging towards something special
#9Anyone thinking about using Linux on their desktop or laptop should give latest KDE a try. Rolling release distros like Arch or OpenSuse Tumbleweed should be good options. Reasons you may like it - no new paradigm bs to learn just your plain old customizable desktop, it’s stable(they’re fixing stuff like crazy every week), if you don’t like something they are making contributing to / building KDE components very easy…
> no new paradigm bs to learn just your plain old customizable desktop
Oh, there are plenty of new paradigms you can configure into your KDE desktop. It's a good thing that most distros come with a same-old behavior, but if you want, you can change it.
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#10I’m most excited KDE/Plasma on the mobile. Once people get Linux working smoothly on the Pinephone, etc I think the Plasma interface could be a sane default that’s already available.
I initially assumed the "converging" in the title meant they'd be talking about that:) It is a bright near future now