People who use KDE, what's your favorite distro? I wanna give ita shot.
KDE has their own plasma distribution, I've never used it but it seems like a solid option
Progress on Plasma
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#12Gnome should be annexed by KDE so there is some focus in the community.
KDE is faster, more feature rich with a sensible architecture, but it still is flawed. No sensible defaults, too many convoluted and unmaintained apps etc.
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#13People who use KDE, what's your favorite distro? I wanna give ita shot.
I’ve been using Fedora for over a year with KDE. Before that it was Kubuntu for a year. The difference is night and day in my opinion. I believe this is due to the constant updates on fedora that fixed many annoying bugs I had with the ubuntu install. The downside is that you are likely to get a kernel update about once a week, it honestly hasn’t been an issue and i’m a college student who needs essentially 100% uptime on my boxes. But in my opinion it’s the perfect trade off since it’s not quite rolling but still on the cutting edge for the most part.
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#14I wish KDE had the same level of resources behind it as GNOME does. I keep occasionally trying new versions of GNOME but it feels like a DE optimized to look good in screenshots and always falls short when actually using it. KDE on the other hand looks relatively good and is infinitely more usable to me. It's got some rougher edges and a weaker application ecosystem but still comes out ahead for me. I also vastly pre…
I don't want to defend Gnome because I also can't stand it over KDE most of the time, but I think GNOME is built for one actually useful thing... laptops.
Gnome feels good on a computer with a single small display.
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#15People who use KDE, what's your favorite distro? I wanna give ita shot.
I’ve been using Fedora for over a year with KDE. Before that it was Kubuntu for a year. The difference is night and day in my opinion. I believe this is due to the constant updates on fedora that fixed many annoying bugs I had with the ubuntu install. The downside is that you are likely to get a kernel update about once a week, it honestly hasn’t been an issue and i’m a college student who needs essentially 100% upti…
That.
I've been using the KDE spin of Fedora for many years!
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#16People who use KDE, what's your favorite distro? I wanna give ita shot.
If you are willing to switch away from apt, openSUSE is a fantastic KDE distro. It stays close to the base KDE as much as possible (unlike Manjaro).
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#17They write about negligible memory overhead by KDE over XFCE, but the measurement is done on a Live image just after a fresh boot, that is, not a real use case. I would ask them to take the same measurements after like half an hour of loading all XFCE accessories and their corresponding ones on KDE. Otherwise the test wouldn't take into account the impact of loading times and caching of modules and libraries, which K…
It doesn't really matter. Ubuntu Studio is a distro tailored for multimedia production. You are not going to use that on a machine with a small amount of RAM.
For comparison, I am running Mageia 7 with Plasma and after the entire day of working (C development, browser open with many tabs, e-mail ...), the machine shows 3.5GB used RAM with another 6.5GB of cache/buffers, out of 16GB of RAM.
Squabbling over few hundred MB of RAM that Plasma may take extra is ridiculous when a web browser alone can take 2GB+ RAM and a large RAW format photo loaded in Gimp or Krita detto.
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#18As a longtime user of Ubuntu Studio on a very productive DAW, this is welcome news - XFCE has certainly been a great choice for the last few years, but KDE has a lot more to offer, especially now the resource usage is comparable. I have a feeling it'll also sway MacOS DAW users to take a closer look at just what Linux has to offer pro audio users - amazing latency specs, even when compared to Mac, which has tradition…
Is this a joke? There's so much overhead in getting a working setup compared to MacOS, and only one of the major DAWs even runs natively on it. The tools are far from "excellent" compared to the offerings on MacOS and even Windows.
I can't even get the Jack server to start on my Ubuntu machine. It's not snobbiness, the software isn't there and what is there is user hostile.
I know the reply to this comment is "have you tried X, or just do Y then Z!"
On Mac I install software and double click it. I plug in my interface. Maybe I plug in a dongle if I need it. That's it. There's no messing with configurations, installing or uninstalling dependencies, drivers that work, driver management software that works (or just exists), and no bullshit like jack needed at all.
Linux, including Ubuntu Studio is miles away from being sensible for any audio content creation. The experience is horrible.
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#19Personally I consider the KDE the only DE that feels like it can compete with an OS like Windows or OSX. It's just a lot of small things that add up to make it feel cohesive. Like how the file explorer has a built in terminal that follows the folder you're in. A lot of people call that philosophy bloat. But honestly I've got a PC with 32 GB of RAM and a laptop with 16GB. Like the Ubuntu Studio people have said 50MB m…
> Like how the file explorer has a built in terminal that follows the folder you're in.
That’s a nice feature. But it has little to do with Windows/OSX equivalence.
It also highlights something I felt last time I tried KDE (admittedly a while ago).
There were lots of nice UX innovations and polish. But they didn’t feel familiar to me (as a user of many desktop environments). This makes switching much less of an appealing prospect to me.
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#20People who use KDE, what's your favorite distro? I wanna give ita shot.
Mageia could be an option.