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Progress on Plasma

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Re: Progress on Plasma

#21
Good move.

I've played with various DEs, and my work desktop still runs with Gnome (I do not really get a choice there).

At home I've been using KDE for years. It's the only one that makes sense to me. I use it on both Laptops and Desktops, small screens and big screens.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#22
post #3

Personally 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…

As you said, you got a PC with 32GB of RAM and a laptop with 16GB.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#23
post #3

Personally 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…

To me the problem with bloat is that it makes projects harder to maintain, also more bugs, not so much about ram usage. If the system in place makes sure the codebase is easily understood and adopted by contributors, then by all means, make all the crazy features you can think of.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#24
post #3

Personally 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…

As you said, you got a PC with 32GB of RAM and a laptop with 16GB.

Exactly - a desktop experience should track the current desktop hardware. If you have 512mb of ram and a pentium 4 then too bad. Let’s not hobble the future because of the past.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#25
post #7

People who use KDE, what's your favorite distro? I wanna give ita shot.

Kubuntu, because I like debs and apt and the appeal of Ubuntu-ish distros is that things generally work out of the box without too much fudging around.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#26
post #3

Personally 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…

Besides an integrated terminal, Dolphin also has a split mode! https://i.imgur.com/4blIFer.png

How does a file manager made by four Dutch guys for free beat Explorer, the file manager of the 99.9% marketshare multi-billion-dollar hegemon OS (which only got a dark mode like yesterday)?

Re: Progress on Plasma

#27
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As you said, you got a PC with 32GB of RAM and a laptop with 16GB.

Exactly - a desktop experience should track the current desktop hardware. If you have 512mb of ram and a pentium 4 then too bad. Let’s not hobble the future because of the past.

Amen. Stop fighting the last war.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#28
post #3

Personally 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…

Besides an integrated terminal, Dolphin also has a split mode! https://i.imgur.com/4blIFer.png How does a file manager made by four Dutch guys for free beat Explorer, the file manager of the 99.9% marketshare multi-billion-dollar hegemon OS (which only got a dark mode like yesterday)?

And tabs. And drag-dropping things by accident doesn't simply move/copy files but asks you what you want to do.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#29
post #3

Personally 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…

As you said, you got a PC with 32GB of RAM and a laptop with 16GB.

In Ubuntu Studio's context, one would expect the typical user to have decent RAM as it caters for multimedia which needs a lot of RAM.

Ubuntu's minimum requirements for desktop users is 4GB RAM. I presume that an extra 50MB is acceptable.

Re: Progress on Plasma

#30

I don't know where all of the love for KDE is coming from. It's got so many graphical and UI bugs even in comparison to XFCE that I can't use it as my daily driver.

What kinds of bugs are you talking about? I think part of the problem with KDE is that it's large enough that two users might be using completely different parts of it---I find that it's far more stable than GNOME, for instance. I'm not a fan of how its compositor makes scrolling look (I much prefer how Sway or even Windows does it) or how the compositor interacts with SDL applications, but that's not exactly a "bug".
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