The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[glicko45]

What is the hype of KDE Plasma?
I never got it, for example i would always give it a chance but couldn't work with it for more than a day because I...
>> Hated the UI
>> felt super slow
>> felt bloated as fuck
I just dont get the appeal of KDE compared to a DE like XFCE or GNOME

 

[ks99]

What is the hype of KDE Plasma?
I never got it, for example i would always give it a chance but couldn't work with it for more than a day because I...
>> Hated the UI
>> felt super slow
>> felt bloated as fuck
I just dont get the appeal of KDE compared to a DE like XFCE or GNOME

KDE was bloated a decade ago and I haven't really tried it recently, but I do know that unlike GNOME, KDE actually lets you customize shit the way you want it, which is exactly what the fuck I want on Linux. XFCE is fine but gniggers fucked up GTK with CSD, so you need hacks to disable it on an XFCE desktop so your themes actually work. Oh, and XFCE is adopting CSE too, so you need more fucking hacks to have themes actually work as intended. Pure retardation. AFAIK KDE does not have this issue. All I know is it used to be ugly as fuck (but isn't now), and themes were less common, which made the bloat unbearable, but it can't be any worse than Windows.

 

[glicko45]

KDE was bloated a decade ago and I haven't really tried it recently, but I do know that unlike GNOME, KDE actually lets you customize shit the way you want it, which is exactly what the fuck I want on Linux. XFCE is fine but gniggers fucked up GTK with CSD, so you need hacks to disable it on an XFCE desktop so your themes actually work. Oh, and XFCE is adopting CSE too, so you need more fucking hacks to have themes actually work as intended. Pure retardation. AFAIK KDE does not have this issue. All I know is it used to be ugly as fuck (but isn't now), and themes were less common, which made the bloat unbearable, but it can't be any worse than Windows.

Idk i recently downloaded KDE with arch and i must say that i definitely feels super bloated and clunky. But normally on my main machine i use window manages like i3 or dwm. so i mighnt just be conditioned to the smoothness and responsiveness of window managers. and you are absolutely right it cannot be worse than windows.

 

[ks99]

Yeah, tiling shit is nice once you get all the keyboard shortcuts down. You look like you're Zero Cool at all times too, nice bonus

 

[kūhaku]

What is the hype of KDE Plasma?
I never got it, for example i would always give it a chance but couldn't work with it for more than a day because I...
>> Hated the UI
>> felt super slow
>> felt bloated as fuck
I just dont get the appeal of KDE compared to a DE like XFCE or GNOME

It's pretty bloated true (like 200 dependancies), but it runs fast for me and personally I'm a big fan of the UI. Might be biased though because the only other DE I've tried is GNOME and I hated it. I like the look and feel, the settings menu, the context menus, customization, etc. Feels leagues better than GNOME

 

[TheBigZee]

KDE runs fine on a celeron n4020 for me.

KDE's online collection of themes, icon sets, widgets, etc. is really expansive. Krunner is pretty nice. I've got a lot of custom configurations for Konsole. The control panel is well integrated with everything else, and in a post systemd world I can count on only rarely needing to edit basic things in /etc. Kate is a pretty good editor (notepad++ is still king of text editing imo).

From a technical standpoint, QT provides a coherent base and most/all of the projects can be built from QT creator, which is a decent IDE. C++ lends itself to the style of code re-use you see in the kde framework. People involved in the project are pretty chill. QML/Plasmids are easy to get going with. If you want to enhance/extend it, it's really really easy to do so.

 

[glicko45]

It's pretty bloated true (like 200 dependancies), but it runs fast for me and personally I'm a big fan of the UI. Might be biased though because the only other DE I've tried is GNOME and I hated it. I like the look and feel, the settings menu, the context menus, customization, etc. Feels leagues better than GNOME

fair enough, I have disliked gnome for around 6 years but it has deffinately grown on me over the years and is in my top 3 DE's.

 

[Amelia Watson]

Since went full AMDfag, been using Pop for a while. Pretty decent with minimal fuckery so far, but given the HoloISO release, been tempted to give it a spin.

Also mandatory fuck Ubuntu, and fuck Snaps.

 

[Ahriman]

KDE's only shortcoming is that the devs don't do enough to showcase/push on the "power user" aspect of it, it can be as customizable as you want.

This last one I might just pull the trigger on it and rice out my KDE to look like that, super comfy.

 

[WinnieTheJew]

What is the hype of KDE Plasma?
I never got it, for example i would always give it a chance but couldn't work with it for more than a day because I...
>> Hated the UI
>> felt super slow
>> felt bloated as fuck
I just dont get the appeal of KDE compared to a DE like XFCE or GNOME

Plasma is not real KDE.

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

 

[Ahriman]

One of the most negative reviews that I have ever given a Linux distribution was my video a couple of months ago on LinuxFX, a Windows 11 clone. LinuxFX has mostly proprietary software installed, including a bunch of Microsoft products. It also comes with its own "LinuxFX" tools that are all closed source, proprietary software. And like Windows, LinuxFX requires users to "activate" a license. Well, there's a problem with that...

 

[seri0us]

It's been almost two weeks after nuking my Win11 install and replacing it with Fedora 36. I'm still satisfied with my decision and have no desire to go back. The biggest problem I've faced is that Rhythmbox does not play well with how I have my music library tagged. In particular it doesn't acknowledge the Album Artist tag, something that has been filed as a bug going back 11 years now. If anyone has a recommendation for a music player that works, acts and looks like foobar2000 and integrates well into the GNOME UI I would very much appreciate it. Or maybe I'll just write my own...

CLEMENTINE

 

[ks99]

Since went full AMDfag, been using Pop for a while. Pretty decent with minimal fuckery so far, but given the HoloISO release, been tempted to give it a spin.

Also mandatory fuck Ubuntu, and fuck Snaps.

Snaps are fucking up even server software now. The documentation for Certbot (the automated Let's Encrypt script) tells you to just use Snap now, and the alternatives are now just "just use Docker or pip lol". How about fuck off and use the distro's repository like everything else?

 

[ks99]

It's been almost two weeks after nuking my Win11 install and replacing it with Fedora 36. I'm still satisfied with my decision and have no desire to go back. The biggest problem I've faced is that Rhythmbox does not play well with how I have my music library tagged. In particular it doesn't acknowledge the Album Artist tag, something that has been filed as a bug going back 11 years now. If anyone has a recommendation for a music player that works, acts and looks like foobar2000 and integrates well into the GNOME UI I would very much appreciate it. Or maybe I'll just write my own...

>GNOME
>obvious bug
notabug/wontfix :^)

alternatively

"I have no idea what the Album Artist tag is or does, sorry."

 

[Ahriman]

It's been almost two weeks after nuking my Win11 install and replacing it with Fedora 36. I'm still satisfied with my decision and have no desire to go back. The biggest problem I've faced is that Rhythmbox does not play well with how I have my music library tagged. In particular it doesn't acknowledge the Album Artist tag, something that has been filed as a bug going back 11 years now. If anyone has a recommendation for a music player that works, acts and looks like foobar2000 and integrates well into the GNOME UI I would very much appreciate it. Or maybe I'll just write my own...

A previous user suggested Clementine, but I suggest its fork, Strawberry. Much more maintained.

Welcome aboard, fren!

 

[Churros con Manteca]

It's been almost two weeks after nuking my Win11 install and replacing it with Fedora 36. I'm still satisfied with my decision and have no desire to go back. The biggest problem I've faced is that Rhythmbox does not play well with how I have my music library tagged. In particular it doesn't acknowledge the Album Artist tag, something that has been filed as a bug going back 11 years now. If anyone has a recommendation for a music player that works, acts and looks like foobar2000 and integrates well into the GNOME UI I would very much appreciate it. Or maybe I'll just write my own...

You could give a chance to Strawberry, and it's included in the repo of almost every distro. Damnit @Ahriman you've been too quick

KDE's only shortcoming is that the devs don't do enough to showcase/push on the "power user" aspect of it, it can be as customizable as you want.

And that it uses a bit too much RAM with hardware accel. If someone or a team could write a better implementation I'd give them plenty C-Quarters. For now software does a good job ig.

This last one I might just pull the trigger on it and rice out my KDE to look like that, super comfy.

Theming in Plasma really hits the nail, totally recommended.

 

[TheBigZee]

People need to make peace with containers. They solve an incredible number of problems on the "we write and maintain your software" side of things.

 

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People need to make peace with containers. They solve an incredible number of problems on the "we write and maintain your software" side of things.

neck yourself

 

[bussy mafia]

i have a steam deck and linux makes me feel retarded

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

A previous user suggested Clementine, but I suggest its fork, Strawberry. Much more maintained.

Welcome aboard, fren!

Thanks. Unfortunately it's not GTK so it looks kind of weird in GNOME but it's a lot closer to what I want.

I've been messing around with Linux since the days when kernels still had to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy, so this is far from my first go at it, but this is the first time I've felt like the experience is essentially complete. Every time I've tried to full-time Linux I've ended up having to go back to Windows, usually due to instability or lack of hardware support, but this is the first time I've had almost everything "just work". The only things I lack support for are some of my gaming peripherals, but PCI/USB passthrough to a Windows VM gets around that. There's still annoyances like my monitor refresh rate not reverting back to 100 Hz on boot-up, but otherwise it's at the point where I don't miss anything except certain apps like foobar2000.