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It was Gnome 2 that gave me this power. When KDE 3.5 died and KDE 4 came out (around Vista times) it felt so sluggish and unstable and I ditched KDE for Gnome. Then Gnome became buggy and a lot less customizable. It still is, plugins and all. I really enjoy that KDE never took my freedom to configure my DE however I see fit, without having to install plugins. In that respect I'll always love KDE more. To be completely fair I still find myself using Gnome sometimes, it's not as awful as it once was, but KDE makes more sense to me. I just wish I could map the damn windows key to open the "applications" menu (one of those random things I wish KDE would just let me do), er I mean the "meta" key.
Also KDE suffered from Qt licensing and C++ use, which many GNU/Linux users weren't found of.
The license issue was eventually sorted out, but the C vs C++ arguments still carry on I would say.
PS. Mandrake was my 2nd Linux distro ever, back in its heyday almost 2 decades back. Still remember Drakeconf with fondness!
(Although the openSUSE installer offer the choice between KDE and GNOME. And Xfce, I think.)
Although, I have never felt the need for it. I like using the krunner (it is similar to spotlight on Mac) instead of the application menu.
I use it a lot for quick calculations.
That was one of the weirdest choices of the KDE4 transition, when KDE people looked drunk on power as they rewrote critical bits of the system with abandon. Dolphin appeared and was supposed to be the new blessed filemanager (for no good reason except that "it's all Qt4"), but the old one never went away (because it was much more powerful and less buggy already, unsurprisingly). A typical Linux-desktop migration, in other words.
> KDE will open websides in more than just Konqueror but another weird browser-like thing
As far as I know that's still very much Konqueror, it's just that menus might be a bit different when it's embedded in the filemanager.
1. Right click on the application launcher
2. Select "Application Launcher Settings"
3. Select the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab
4. Set the shortcut to "Alt + F1"
5. Click "Apply" or "OK"
Verified this works on whatever 5.12 spin is on Kubuntu backports.
Now I'm considering switching to Fedora KDE as my daily driver. For people who use Fedora KDE as their daily driver : what's your experience with this distro? Anything that people new to this Fedora spin need to be aware of? Any thoughts on the security track record of Fedora KDE?
Rock solid, fast, no graphical glitching (Intel GPU), sane default app choices (except why have Dragon Player instead of mpv), excellent installer, no, scratch that, the best installer, dnf is nice and has delta based updates which I never had with Ubuntu, no unnecessary bloat, in fact the resource usage is on par with Ubuntu 16.04. Only issue I've had is that f2fs isn't working normally but this also affects other distros with a similar kernel/userland. Otherwise it's been a net gain.
I switched to Fedora KDE for my main machine purely because of the Unity announcement, no intention to use the GNOME garbage, even though I will keep using Ubuntu 16.04 on other machines as long as the support continues until a few years.
The new machine has a 4K screen and as with many people I'm occasionally hooked up to 1080P external monitors. I found that Gnome handled mixed DPI setups slightly better so I'm using that these days but KDE is very polished and well worth a try. Once KDE sort out the mixed DPI situation I may even switch back.
Came here just to second this. This is especially true when using Wayland. Gnome is better here, especially if you have the luxury to
* enable experimental fractional scaling of Gnome 3.26; * restrict yourself to properly ported GTK3-Applications.
The situation with other applications is not as bright. While eg. Libreoffice looks good at first sight (crisp fonts under Wayland and fractional scaling enabled), Dialog boxes are not resizable and become unusable, as important information is missing.
It’s ok but I don’t know that I’d recommend it specifically over anything.
Literally the only reason I use Linux still is that Firefox and Chrome have too many bugs and issues on FreeBSD, otherwise I’d run FreeBSD on my desktop too as I do on my server and one of my two laptops.
My other laptop is currently running macOS but I almost haven’t used it since I put macOS on it, partly because the mouse stops working after a while but also because I’ve just been busy with a lot of other stuff so I haven’t had time to sit down with macOS since installing it on said laptop some weeks ago. Time flies by way too fast.
Yes I think so but it broke again. However I don’t use suspend/resume either way so I don’t mind though I used to use it so I guess I just got used to it not being available.
Suddenly KDE was no longer 'enterprise' ready, as no enterprise I've ever worked for has offered anything but NFS for home directories.
Occasionally I come across a coworker who uses konsole, as they like the tabs. But I've never seen it in use widely again.
Have they removed this limitation?
You can take a look at all the plamoids available for download here: https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/418/
I guess your installation will be smaller and you will have to process fewer updates. Which is not insignificant, I guess.
Anything else I might be missing?
I never really got on with it myself. No distro seems to ship it as their default desktop any more, only as respins. Gnome seems to have pretty much won the desktop environment wars.
There are a few KDE-only distros. openSUSE offers many desktops, but KDE is installed by default.
Also, aside from myself I've seen our system admin at my job using it, and I think at least one or two more coworkers. Also Tyler[0] uses KDE ;)
Giving the user every option he/she possibly could want is not necessarily good design. Tbh it seems like a cheap cop-out from making design decisions in the first place. Leaving the user with a lot of noise.
The point is, flexibility is not by itself a sign of bad design (or avoiding design decisions). Good design is choosing sane defaults for the average user, and providing discoverable and understandable configuration options for the power user.
I'm not saying that good design is directly correlated to the number of configuration options. Some configuration options are genuinely indicative of bad underlying design, and can be removed once a better design is in place. But when you remove configuration options for the sake of removing configuration options, you obtain Gnome 3.
I think that KDE has had so much FUD thrown at it that people just have a negative view of it right away. Sure 4.0 was stated as a Beta and every distro put it out (When KDE stated it wasn't ready for that) and everyone Nuked KDE till about 4.7.
KDE put it out, everyone complained it was terrible, unstable and not ready, then KDE called it a beta.
People that are intimidated by buttons should use Gnome, they will remove everything that is possible from the options dialog.
The defaults seem very sensible in my experience. Having the freedom to customise it further doesn't seem like a bad thing but perhaps I'm just old-skool.