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KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by bovermyer »

cardanome wrote: post #167
bovermyer wrote: post #96

With this hitting multiple communications media for me independently over the last few hours, it has me considering whether I can switch from Windows to Linux for my gaming PC again. Last time I tried, I used Ubuntu, and I experienced problems with several games via Proton (e.g., The Finals, Fields of Mistria, and Civilization VII, among others). I checked ProtonDB, and it looks like those issues may be resolved. How…

Dropbox works fine on Linux so you should be good. OneDrive has a community developed client, not sure how good it works. Gaming works great on Linux, arguably better than on Windows. Show stoppers are mostly aggressive anti-cheat or DRM stuff so multiplayer can still suck but for anyone doing single player it is amazing. I have a windows installation I can dual boot into but I haven't in like half a year, I prefer g…

My last attempt was Debian-flavored Mint.

This go around, I'm thinking of trying Kubuntu. Specifically 25.10 Kubuntu, since apparently Wayland fixes a lot of the problems I had trying to game on Linux before.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by abrouwers »

guerrilla wrote: post #108
abrouwers wrote: post #106

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Gnome isn't dead - it looks more consistent, and in my experience, is running smoothet and cleaner than it ever has (including gnome2 days). It's fine that it's not for you, but comments like this are insane, and not healthy. It's 2025, we don't need to I sult software we don't want to use - just don't use it. (And, threatening to move back to something like openbox, because gnome is too simple and degraded, is extra…

What GNOME was is completely dead. All of that flexibility and all of those features are gone. This thing here is something else wearing it's dead corpse. > consistent Ah yes, very consistent with two entirely different sets of window borders (GTK3 and Adwaita).

By contrast, I find kde/plasma much more confusing for window borders. I see kvantum, dekorator, breeze forks, something called "klassy," etc. I appreciate gnome's ability to sometimes cut the legacy cord.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by wkat4242 »

outadoc wrote: post #29
frameset wrote: post #25

I'm absolutely loving KDE since I returned to desktop Linux after a long absence. What really shocks me is how few of the big distros make KDE a default or "first class" DE choice. If I was a novice user coming from Windows, I'd much prefer KDE, which if you stick to the GUI is very navigable and similar in some ways.

I can easily see a novice user coming from Windows accidentally getting into the edit mode of Plasma and being completely confused. I like KDE as an advanced user but I wouldn't install it on my grandma's laptop. I agree that it would be great to have it as a first-class citizen in more distros, but I guess the maintenance burden is not negligible. I'm glad Fedora promoted it though.

For novice users there's already other more opinionated environments anyway. I get KDE because it's powerful not because I want my grandma to use it.

In fact I don't understand why people are rooting for Linux on the desktop. I personally don't even want that to happen because it would quickly become so dumbed down and commercialised that it would become the same trash that is windows and mac. Because normal users just want to pay someone to take care of things for them and that someone will want to make ever more money. Meaning app stores, services, lock-in, advertising and such crap. So what you get is basically like ChromeOS. Easy mode for users, totally locked in to their warm and fuzzy walled garden, total corporate surveillance and completely evil to power users like you and me.

I'm very happy if the majority of consumers stays away because their wants and needs are completely opposite to ours. All the things that make Linux great will not apply to whatever they will use.

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Post by frameset »

basfo wrote: post #80

My first introduction to Linux was through Knoppix, the first “live CD” if I recall correctly. Maybe there was something before it, but I remember it as something new and magical at the time: being able to test a full Linux desktop directly from a CD. From there, as I was learning Linux (I was 16 years old), I used KDE a lot. It was such a cool experience. I especially loved how easy it was to create custom themes, t…

Wow Amarok, that takes me back. I used to use KDE in the late 00s and it was head and shoulders over other music apps.

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Post by shoobiedoo »

moxvallix wrote: post #22
shoobiedoo wrote: post #5

I've been running KDE plasma with wayland in arch for over a year now, it's been an absolute dream come true. Everything just works. Gaming with Proton, dual monitors with different resolutions, Japanese input, I only need to hop onto windows when my son wants to play Minecraft.

You might not need to even for Minecraft, have you seen this project? https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher (Android version of Bedrock made to work on Linux)

I haven't seen this! Thank you

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Post by shoobiedoo »

hurricanepootis wrote: post #64
moxvallix wrote: post #22

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You might not need to even for Minecraft, have you seen this project? https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher (Android version of Bedrock made to work on Linux)

I maintain the AUR package for this. `mcpelauncher-linux` and `mcpelauncher-ui`. If you just do a simple `paru -S mcpelauncher-ui`, it should build just fine.

Very cool. Thank you very much

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Post by wkat4242 »

c-hendricks wrote: post #97
wkat4242 wrote: post #67

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KDE looks different enough to windows in its default install though. And you can make it look like whatever you want, that's the best thing about it. Mine is heavily customised.

> KDE looks different enough to windows in its default Uhhhh it does? https://kde.org/content/plasma-desktop/plasma-launcher.png https://laptopmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/win10-sta... https://pointieststick.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/hebrew... https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/cho... I like KDE a lot, and yes you can configure it to look and act just abut any way you like, but it's…

In common yes but it's not windows, that's pretty obvious.

Especially that start menu with the tiles on windows is very different (and horrible because the default doesn't look like that screenshot, it's filled with ads, news and other crap)

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Post by wkat4242 »

dessimus wrote: post #140
wkat4242 wrote: post #65

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Kubuntu isn't really feature complete compared to Ubuntu, for example the installer doesn't allow to create a zfs on root install.

I feel like the difference is that Kubuntu installer is specifically intended for users wanting the Desktop experience via KDE, whereas the Ubuntu installer can be used for multiple use-cases such as headless Servers or Desktops. Server admins might have reason to run zfs for root, but typically Desktop users are not really needing zfs when they have 1 or maybe 2 disks. There are other filesystems that provide some o…

As a desktop user I definitely have a lot of benefit of ZFS even with one drive. It's got bitrot check, copy on write (better crash protection than journals) and snapshots. All life savers especially on desktop. ZFS doesn't only shine on big arrays.

And yes you can do that but I don't use Ubuntu a lot and I hate gnome so obviously I tried setting it up through kubuntu when I wanted to give it a spin.

I'm not a fan of Ubuntu anyway due to systemd and snap but these days I'm on FreeBSD as daily driver and very happy with it. It was just when I was last deciding on an OS that I tried it. Also tried arch and manjaro and a few others but I didn't feel at home there either.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by wkat4242 »

munchlax wrote: post #48
wkat4242 wrote: post #7

I donate monthly anyway. KDE is amazing and I love the extensive options in this day and age of horrible opinionated design. I just wish they weren't in such a hurry to deprecate X11 because Wayland isn't quite there yet on my OS (FreeBSD)

How's the gpu driver? Which chip would you recommend for the beast?

I use the generic intel drm-kmod driver, it works well and supports acceleration though you do need some additional stuff like libvaapi.

Not sure what hardware is best. I just use it on a NUC so I didn't have any choice in hardware options.

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