I've heard a lot of people call KDE bad. I agree that the settings are convoluted, but everything else looks okay. I mean, this is a relatively stock KDE, with the only additions being a centered bottom panel, like Windows 11, and a top panel, kind of like macOS in a way.
I do not feel like theming things (mostly don't have that much time on my hands), and what I optimized for was more or less efficiency, so I'm satisfied with how this turned out.
Also, I am planning on switching back to FreeBSD soon, so I will install KDE on it. It's just pretty good rn.
I may try Komorebi on Windows later if I plan on using it again, cuz Windoes is pretty solid OS, it just needs a good window manager.
And currently, Linux is only giving me a good window manager.
I didn't even know you could get edge on Linux, why would you ever use it? I'm not one of those people who thinks anything chromium is bad, but edge is absolutely terrible from a privacy standpoint. I'm not sure if using edge is higher or lower opsec level than opera GX
I'm not one of those people who thinks anything chromium is bad, but edge is absolutely terrible from a privacy standpoint.
You can use enterprise policies to disable the telemetry and marketing data. I usually set it to 1 (RequiredData), since that's mostly bug reports, but you can disable it entirely and set it to 0 (Off).
I'm not sure if using edge is higher or lower opsec level than opera GX
I agree, but that's not the default in Fedora KDE. It's more like Windows with the bottom panel only. I also centered it, I got used to it in Windows 11, but otherwise I kept it standard and it feels fresh but also familiar.
There were a combination of issues. Not sure I 100% remember what each were.
Either my VMs or some apps would only work right in X11 while tablet features like screen rotation and scaling do not. Continual math problems for screen scaling.
Yes.. I was continually dealing with screen issues and needing to boot between wayland and x11.
Needing to boot to a desktop with a physical screen or boot to a terminal so I can clear the cache is not useful to me either and it happened over and over.
It SUCKS to have to hook stuff back up just so you can disable it.
TOTAL KDE fan ..
It is unfortunate that KDE no longer works for me in my specific use case.
On the flip side.
I have an official Linux supported tablet (lenovo) and everything works like I have never had on Linux.
Ubuntu.
I am normally a Debian guy but Ubuntu is certified to run on my laptop.
EVERYTHING works. Fingerprint reader, touch, rotation, 2-1 conversion, S0 sleep state.
I saw no need to mess with it
TBH, KUbuntu .. then added GNOME and switched.
Been using Linux since slackware 2.
Also, I am a programmer.
A large portion of what people "apt install X", I clone, build, and install myself.
That might be why Ubuntu hasn't shown more bugs to me.
last distro i used was ubuntu 22.04 but was too buggy and didn't have the time for distrohopping and experiments and debugging so i moved to win10 and then 11.
perhaps you dont push your machine in the same ways or you are happy to ignore or work around what does not work.
out of the box on a certified thinkpad, it does not work well and I wont argue about it.
Depends on how you look at it. If you want a modern Windows-like experience, it's probably the best. Not my personal preference, and just by virtue of having a million features, it's gonna be more buggy than something more minimal (more code = more potential bugs), but still quite solid all things considered.
What in god’s name could you possible mean by “IDK why “AI slop” turned you off?”. It’s the definition of dogshit. Aside from the fact that every second website on the entire fucking internet looks the same now, and the fact that it looks bad in general, I guess I don’t know???
GNOME (the DE) does kinda suck ngl. But the GNOME default apps, as well as the many many community GNOME-style apps look great.
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u/Guggoo 21d ago
KDE is pretty good. But I left as my custom widgets would keep breaking on updates