I’m waiting for Cosmic to mature
It has so many great ideas, all it needs is time and polish.
Plasma is great. But it’s missing an important feature. Apps, such as backup or sync, cannot navigate to network shares, to use as a backup target. Dolphin sees the shares ok, but its important to backup. Windows lets apps select network targets. Plasma should too.
Dolphin shows you places that are not in your file system, such as network shares or your phone‘s media directory. Those are fake files, illusions of Satan, temptations designed to stray you from the path of God. Avoid anything that is not opened with
openand not read withreadsystem calls, for doing so is a sin before eyes of God (fopenandfreadare permitted). Mount your network shares usingsudo mount -t cifs.I use Nixos, but my ssh mount and nfs and samba mount can be selected as backup path for kup.
Nice. Kup actually lets me see the Network. But then complains if I select a samba share. There is a popular bug report about this. I prefer sync backup to access documents directly, instead of kups scrambled backup files.
I’ve enjoyed KDE since Mandrake 6. The control you get to have as a user is amazing. Thought to be honest, I really change very little. But the Cube! I will die for that Cube.
But I have used probably every DE that runs on Linux one time or another. Each has its own charms and quirks. While my laptop lives comfortably with Fedora 43 Kinonite, the cheap mini desktop I’m using right now currently has COSMIC on it. And to be honest, as much as I like LXDE, dnfdragoria as it’s package manager, someone at Fedora needs to take dnfdragoria out back and launch it into the sun. COMIC is far lighter feeling than I thought would be. I will live with it for a while I think.
Gnome has the cube now. I prefer gnome, so this was a wonderful surprise.
Reminds me of the old compiz days, beautiful stuff
Cinnamon situation currently on arch feels such that it might break at any time, and in fact has recently. :-( I have absolutely loved the simplicity this DE, but the breakages lately are worrisome. I’m considering migrating from cinnamon to plasma, but the added cruft that comes with the Plasma DE does not impress me. There is some tension; I have contributed to KDE projects, and I prefer KDE apps over gnome/GTK.
How well does plasma wayland tolerate unresponsive apps? I need to be able to keep graphical apps in this state for possibly an hour at time, as I run them under a debugger.
I think due to Cinnamon being the DE for Mint, they might be feeling some issues with their transition to Wayland. I know I switched from Fedora Cinnamon to Fedora Budgie for a bit because things got frustrating when they started the switch. I’m using Fedora COMIC right now. It seems pretty decent.
Been on Awesome WM since '08, but once dappled with KDE. Does it still have resource hungry processes that I have no use for (IIRC, Akonadi or daemons related to it were one of those problematic components)?
It’s the heaviest.
It does, but they are removable (and I think there is an option to just install the base KDE package by itself rather than the bundles)
I’m now on KDE. Before I have used XFCE, Gnome, Mate and Cinnamon.
People seem excited about Cosmic.
What does it make it so promising?
I just installed the Fedora spin with COSMIC this week. It’s running very nicely on a low powered mini-desktop with 8Gbit of shared memory. It feels light enough and easy enough to use for newcomers to Linux. Plus it has just enough eye candy to satisfy those that want some customization by just point and clicking.
I’m going to be trying it out for a while I think. But my laptop will always be Kinonite.
KDE’s absolutely excellent, but if you need every little kilobyte RAM, go Sway. Sway—It’s Technically Graphical ™
i have tried kde and i cannot understand how so many people love it and hate gnome
Gnome 3 abruptly removed app icons from the desktop moved taskbar to the top of the screen, and broke Alt-Tab. That’s why prople hate Gnome and love KDE, because KDE did not break these features.
It’s not that I “hate” Gnome, I still love Gnome 2 and Cinnamon by extension, but the workflow of Gnome 3 just sucks balls for me. I can tolerate the workflow of any other DE, but Gnome 3 is just right out.
Try danklinux.com for an easy Niri install. Thank me later.
Wait. It is like hyperland but with a control panel so you dont really miss anything like changing control mouse speed screen resolution etc.
This looks interesting. Today i use plasma and kanata to get a good environment that is close to tiling
I went from Gnome 2 to Mate, and switched to Plasma last year. Can’t see myself moving away anytime soon XD
After using Hyprland for 2 years I can say it’s my favorite am by far for fun and productivity, however it’s not stable at all
I’ve found hyprland itself is very stable, but what you run on top of it often compromises that. Using end 4 dots as a base on cachy has been a superb experience for me. Had a lot of issues with my completely custom hypr on tumbleweed (not tumbleweed’s fault tho)
Still waiting for XFCE‘s Wayland support. Until then Plasma it is
Booooo Wayland
Get over it. We all have to.
I miss being on XFCE, I’ll be so quick to go back when their wayland transition is done
the first DE I used on Linux was cinnamon and I was like “wow, this is great, everything makes sense to me out of the box”
And then I tried Gnome and was incredibly put off by it, like “why the hell is this over here, this layout is strange to me. Why are all these unconventional features on by default, this is very annoying.”
And then I tried KDE and I was like “wow, this is great and everything makes sense to me out of the box, also there’s all these features and options, I don’t know what they do, but i don’t have to interact with them if I don’t want to.”
I know when I reload it wont be kde.
I tried lots of DE’s when distros started switching to GNOME 3.
Now I just run Xfce on everything.
I have only really used xfce. It’s still fun to install Kali on devices but really I use xfce.
Just a user though, not a pro
