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Re: KDE at 30

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Post by Hugsbox »

liotier wrote: post #129
thom wrote: post #50

It feels to me that a lot of the bigger ideas in KDE fell away over the years. In the 2000s I would log in every morning, open a KWord doc in one Konqueror tab, a KSpread sheet in another, and some browser tabs alongside them, then I'd launch Kate and open some files over SSH or FTP and get to work. It felt like someone had really embraced OO and applied it to every part of the desktop, and I assume something like KP…

> I use KDE now as a bog standard boring Linux desktop that just works "bog standard boring Linux desktop that just works" is a low key major achievement - I love it !

Yep, I'm past my days of wanting my OS to be "exciting" :) now boring and functional is king.

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by efilife »

sham1 wrote: post #40
chekibreki wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it matters. You can try to distract and do as much mental gymnastics as you want but everyone rational can clearly see that one thing is doing politics for software (free drivers, open source, no DRM, …) and the other is about virtue signaling about subjects that are completely unrelated. Btw, feel free to label me however you want (others did already), which shows that they have no arguments and resort to pidge…

> Yes, it matters. Does it actually matter? And if so, why? > You can try to distract and do as much mental gymnastics as you want but everyone rational can clearly see that one thing is doing politics for software (free drivers, open source, no DRM, …) and the other is about virtue signaling about subjects that are completely unrelated. Okay, but you would still have to answer a really important question. Why does i…

I think he already explained why this matters

> This will undoubtedly create tensions and will lead to fewer donations, thus having a negative impact on KDE.

Stallman was trying to better the software, what is this going to accomplish other than polarize people?

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by newsoftheday »

Pooge wrote: post #128
newsoftheday wrote: post #72

Please do not drop X11 in Kubuntu, Wayland performs poorly and weirdly. X11 rocks.

I really don't understand the complaints about Wayland. When the switch was made I wouldn't even have noticed it if I didn't read the blog. Are you using an Nvidia GPU?

I am using nVidia yes. I've preferred their GPU's for a long time for gaming.

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by trostaft »

paulbgd wrote: post #81
trostaft wrote: post #71

Truthfully, I like the more opinionated visual design of GNOME, but I moved to KDE long ago for VRR and better fractional scaling support. They just got it right and working. Huge props to the team, I know that's very difficult. EDIT: On a side note, is anyone informed about the state of VRR + fractional scaling + general gaming on GNOME? Has it gotten better?

Yep, I do all of those on gnome without issues now. HDR too!

Fantastic! It might be time for me to give it a shot again.

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

nailer wrote: post #79

KDE is the ultimate "lost the battle won the war" story. KDE didn't replace Windows as the most popular desktop OS, but 99% chance you're looking at this in a browser that's derived from KDE (Konqueror begat webkit begat Blink) and it's open source because KDE's license made it that way.

> and it's open source because KDE's license made it that way

Chromium is open source, but Chrome isn't. Blink, WebKit, and for that matter KHTML, are available under permissive licences.

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by The_President »

AhCoonu7 wrote: post #95
thom wrote: post #50

It feels to me that a lot of the bigger ideas in KDE fell away over the years. In the 2000s I would log in every morning, open a KWord doc in one Konqueror tab, a KSpread sheet in another, and some browser tabs alongside them, then I'd launch Kate and open some files over SSH or FTP and get to work. It felt like someone had really embraced OO and applied it to every part of the desktop, and I assume something like KP…

I feel the same. A lot of big projects fell by way side over time for various reasons. Goes with the nature of experiments, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. k3b - died with the cd-rom calligra office - creation of LibreOffice stole the thunder konqueror - maintaining a secure browser that isn't a fork of chrome is a tall ask these days amarok / kmail - rewrite lost features, introduced bugs, and many existing a…

Kmail worked great for years then one update akondai would no longer sync and that was the end of it.

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by bloomingon »

enragedcacti wrote: post #22
chekibreki wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lament the times when open source projects were open source software projects instead of political platforms for people who arrogantly think that their private political opinion is important enough to overshadow the project they participate in. This will undoubtedly create tensions and will lead to fewer donations, thus having a negative impact on KDE.

It's Pride Month and the organization is doing Pride things, its not that complicated. > This will undoubtedly create tensions and will lead to fewer donations, thus having a negative impact on KDE. "undoubtedly" is absurd here. Does KDE really have a stable of consistent transphobes donating? Do they outweigh additional donations from supporting the LGBTQ community? Regardless, if the only point of KDE were to make…

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Re: KDE at 30

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Post by Pooge »

newsoftheday wrote: post #133
Pooge wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't understand the complaints about Wayland. When the switch was made I wouldn't even have noticed it if I didn't read the blog. Are you using an Nvidia GPU?

I am using nVidia yes. I've preferred their GPU's for a long time for gaming.

I suggest trying out AMD. Not an evangelist by any means but on Linux there's really no choice. I have one myself since I moved from Nvidia and don't regret it.

Re: KDE at 30

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Post by poolnoodle »

cogman10 wrote: post #123
poolnoodle wrote: post #121

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I must be doing something wrong. On my old i5 6200u Laptop with 8 gigs of RAM fedora kde takes ages to boot and system operation is definitely more sluggish than Windows 10 used to be.

Are you using an SSD? That does make a pretty big difference. Also, make sure you are setup to use proprietary firmware. IDK if fedora does that by default. For my laptop I was running without it for a bit and things were definitely a bit sluggish. I had to add some modprobe settings for the i915 (intel video card) driver. For your CPU it'd look something like this # /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf options i915 enable_guc=…

Thank you very much for the detailed reply
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