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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.
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It's completely unavoidable with open source software, we just have to adapt around it.
We do have one main Linux kernel (while other open source like BSD is far less popular on PCs) and a bunch of tools like bash and git that are de facto default. Seems like Linux community actively avoids converging on a default DE though.
Thats also why you can run kernel 6.5 on a version of RHEL from 15 years ago.
By its nature as a community, the Linux community will never converge on a default DE.
The only reason Windows pulls it off is because it's not a community. It's a dictatorship and you're a serf. You use what Microsoft tells you to use.
But, even then, there is divergence. No doubt you've heard of people sticking to 10 even though Microsoft is abandoning it. Some people still use 7, or even XP.
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Did the response ChatGPT give you actually work, or did it confidently hallucinate?
It was easy enough and I have enough experience with kde and linux to know it would work. I have no interest in doing this although I do similar things with "Input Remapper". My point, which I tried to state kindly, was it is not that hard and not worth complaining about - basically a 2025 "Let me google that for you".
How much do I have to pay to get ISO dates?
I used Linux for a long time (since ~2002), but for the past years I've been daily-driving a MacBook. I'm now switching back, and will likely go with either Gnome or KDE. I've used XFCE, i3wm, etc. for years before – and briefly tried Sway too before I switched to Mac – but from what I've read it sounds like the "big" DEs make life easier post-Wayland. Anyone want to share why you currently choose KDE over Gnome?
Last time I used KDE as my main desktop was v3.x, I switched away once v4.0 was released (at launch it was slow, unstable, and lacked many features). But it seems KDE 6 is likely to fit my personality more than recent Gnome versions.
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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.
zfs on Linux has not been production ready for decades. People have lost data from it. There's no real reason to allow the default installer to do this. If you understand the risks, you can do it yourself.
I currently think ZFS is quite robust, but who knows never hurts to learn more..
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It was easy enough and I have enough experience with kde and linux to know it would work. I have no interest in doing this although I do similar things with "Input Remapper". My point, which I tried to state kindly, was it is not that hard and not worth complaining about - basically a 2025 "Let me google that for you".
And the 1998 approach of just Googling it works perfectly, why would you even bring GPT to this?
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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…
I use KDE on my home PC since about a 15 years, exclusively. I like it a lot but it still has some rough edges here and there. For example, the network config interface is a bit messy. Sure you can configure many things with it, but it's hard to understand). Dolphin is the best file manager I have ever used, nothing come close nowadays (I have tested windows and macs). The desktop configuration is quite nice and the…
Dolphin is a real gem. Split windows, tabs, open terminal in current location, etc. Going back to Windows Explorer is painful once you've gotten used to Dolphin.
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zfs on Linux has not been production ready for decades. People have lost data from it. There's no real reason to allow the default installer to do this. If you understand the risks, you can do it yourself.
indeed, do you have some references on the data loss? would be good to read actually I currently think ZFS is quite robust, but who knows never hurts to learn more..
ZFS on Linux is not, so much so that Oracle the company that owns it refuses to officially support it. It's a fairly well known issue.
https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/10/zfs_on_linux_data_los...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797644
https://zfs-discuss.zfsonlinux.narkive.com/8zTNgJHA/i-have-l...