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I have been using KDE Neon distro for the past year-ish... it started so stable. But in the past month or two I can barely see a day without seeing plasma crashing multiple times, and leaking memory like crazy (after boot 3GB RAM is used. 3 days later, even if every user process is killed, it's over 10GB... it was a while since I saw OOM killer on my desktop, but lately it keeps haunting).

Even tried to reinstall the whole system from scratch...

I know that "it works for you". It worked for me too. Just not recently.

Whatever... I'm just yelling at the clouds, don't mind me. I know I will get back to KDE after some detour. I always do.

I have noticed that most people with negative reviews seem to be trying to use distros derived from Ubuntu. Mint, Neon, or Ubuntu itself, it never ends well. I've played with Ubuntu a couple times and have never been impressed.

I've used KDE desktops for years in Arch and Gentoo distros without any serious issue. Seriously, if you are interested in KDE, give Arch a try.

Neon is supposed to be the reference implementation, not just another mispackaging distro. Neon should be stabler than any other distro, in theory.

Ive had this small breaking (Kontakt/Kmail in particular) on many different distro's, Tumbleweed and Fedora included. I suspect small changes in config formats that are not handled between upgrades?

The only rock steady distro I've found is Debian Stable, perhaps not very surprisingly. That of course comes at the cost of running older versions, but for me it's worth it.

KDE is so great. With all the optionated software with limited options going on: Mac, Gnome, even Windows where you can no longer choose where to put your task bar. KDE is a breath of fresh air with so many customization options.

I think it's the best desktop environment by far and that includes over Mac and Windows.

Anyone using KDE ?

I want to put my "energy consumption" in watts as a widget or a taskbar icon or something.

I tried to put it in system monitor new page but there isn't any sensor named as such. But energy monitor does say 6 or 10 watts depending on load so the data is being given from somewhere

I checked power>battery but that too did not have any such option.

I believe it shows up if you hover over the battery icon in the panel.

Seems I was mistaken, but it looks like you can still derive the power by looking in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/ and whether ../AC/online is 0.

I have the Power Monitor widget and it does derive from BAT0, according to the source code for the widget.

On my laptop BAT0 a bit slow to update, with an update rate of about 0.2Hz.

I've also noted my desktop's UPS reports different power draw values on its status display and the UPS' USB interface, by about 10% or so.

I use KDE Connect on macOS and use Kate.

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