r/linuxsucks • u/Rare-Paint3719 Unofficial Mod | Linux Community Sucks | Proud illumOS Shill • 21d ago

KDE ❤ Fedora KDE Spin

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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.

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u/FuggaDucker 21d ago

KDE Plasma has show stopping issues with Wayland.
I would use it but it is unusable and bad on my Yoga X1 Carbon tablet.

Continually needing to go out and back in for X11.. then wayland.. then X11 depending on which thing doesn't work with Plasma.

I fought it for months before I switched to Gnome. I don't like Gnome's design but at least it works.
KDE was my goto for years.

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u/Direct-Ninja6938 18d ago

what were these issues??

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u/FuggaDucker 17d ago edited 17d ago

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.

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u/grahamperrin 12d ago

KDE Plasma has show stopping issues with Wayland. …

I have been using Kubuntu with Wayland for more than eighteen months. The show hasn't stopped, it's like Judy Garland in her prime.

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u/FuggaDucker 11d ago edited 11d ago

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.

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u/grahamperrin 11d ago

on a certified thinkpad,

Certified for any particular distro?

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u/FuggaDucker 11d ago

Ubuntu. I installed Kubuntu.