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I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems

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Re: I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems

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runjake wrote: post #44
shrimp_emoji wrote: post #27

KDE is the most fully featured Linux DE, and it's leaps and bounds above Windows's (WAY better file manager, better launcher, more features, and even less bugs somehow). The other day, my Windows 10's explorer.exe crashed when the file manager tried to load a directory, which is something that used to happen in Vista and hasn't happened in KDE for years IME.

Every default KDE install I've done comes with a default theme that is hideous and looks like it is designed by amateurs (I realize this is subjective, but it's also a fairly common complaint). However, I always hear people sing the praises of its stability. Is there a good theme/font/icon pack that you like that makes it look more polished without a lot of fussing on the end users' part?

Well, I'm not that picky about the look. I customize the theme, but I don't think about it too much. I use Breeze Dark with PlasmaXDark for window decorations. I also don't think it's looks bad, but that's me.

But the DE, feature-wise, is so great compared to the others that it's like picking between a Volvo, a Model T, and several bicycles for my daily drive. The finish on the Volvo's dashboard is the least of my concerns; I'm just happy it's got AC.

Re: I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems

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jamesgeck0 wrote: post #40
shrimp_emoji wrote: post #27

KDE is the most fully featured Linux DE, and it's leaps and bounds above Windows's (WAY better file manager, better launcher, more features, and even less bugs somehow). The other day, my Windows 10's explorer.exe crashed when the file manager tried to load a directory, which is something that used to happen in Vista and hasn't happened in KDE for years IME.

> even less bugs somehow This is very far from my experience. I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (recommended as one of the best KDE distros) at the beginning of 2022 and ran into a dozen KDE Plasma bugs within an hour. Stuff like panel widths resizing just because I clicked "customize," or widgets vanishing when I tried to drag them onto panels, or the bluetooth icon vanishing from the status bar until I restarted my s…

Dang. Contrary anecdata.

>Stuff like panel widths resizing just because I clicked "customize,"

This can be finicky, I can confirm.

>widgets vanishing when I tried to drag them onto panels

Widgets are also finicky. I don't use them. But they're niche KDE things that you don't really have on other DEs anyway, so I don't count it as diminishing KDE as compared to other DEs. :p

I've never used OpenSUSE, but, for what it's worth, I had tons of KDE crashes years ago when I used Ubuntu. I never had any on Manjaro or Arch, and I've used them for a few year now. My diagnosis there is that the rolling release model is paradoxically better than the point release model in terms of DE stability. I think that's the reason that KDE Neon is a thing (rolling DE updates atop regular Ubuntu). Tumbleweed is apparently a rolling release, though, so Iunno.

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