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My saga of playing with KDE.-a TL;DR
I've been a long time user of Linux Mint.-a It was my first Linux with
Mint 13.
Alan K. wrote:
My saga of playing with KDE.-a TL;DR
I've been a long time user of Linux Mint.-a It was my first Linux with Mint 13.
My everyday driver is LM Cinn. I regularly boot a LOT of different distro/s live, and I'm
a big fan of KDE, but I also like just using a WM, and I like XFCE as well. I generally
don't like Gnome as a DE, but I appreciate the dev that comes out of that 'umbrella'.
I recently read an article in DW about adding the KDE desktop to LM, and I hadn't tried to
mix desktop toolkits in years because the last time I did that, the menu was a big mess.
This time it worked out fine just adding the KDE desktop instead of 'full'.
I like for the dev of a KDE distro to try to keep the KDE 'light' in terms of resource
usage live to the desktop; Neon does that pretty well; most do not.
In terms of resources used to the live desktop, I recently observed that Q4OS TDE uses 10%
LESS resources than Sparky's OB WM over Deb. I'm very impressed w/ how Timothy Pearson and
crew have managed to maintain their forks of the Qt toolkit as well as the '3.5' KDE alive
and well.
Putting KDE onto Mint would be interesting.-a You could log out, and
login with another DE. -a-a You could flip from one to the other but keep your data and files and software.
I'm also interested to see if the LMDE works out just as well.-a This
time I'm going to examine more in the LM tools.
Mike Easter wrote:
I'm also interested to see if the LMDE works out just as well.-a This time I'm going to
examine more in the LM tools.
Another advantage to booting up LMDE is to check out mkusb for persistence. The last time
I tried it on LM it didn't work. mkusb often cautions over the difference between Deb &
Ub, but the recent persistence problem was the first time I had run into LM not being
workable w/ mkusb.
There are two kde desktops (other than full).-a Standard, and Plasma. Plasma says minimal applications.
Which would you load?
Alan K. wrote:
There are two kde desktops (other than full).-a Standard, and Plasma.
Plasma says minimal applications.
Which would you load?
My previous good experience was w/ standard; but I didn't test some
aspects of Mint which I'm going to do w/ standard on LMDE.
Mike Easter wrote:
Alan K. wrote:I just looked at the 2 different descriptions in synaptic; standard depends on a lot more
There are two kde desktops (other than full).-a Standard, and Plasma. Plasma says
minimal applications.
Which would you load?
My previous good experience was w/ standard; but I didn't test some aspects of Mint
which I'm going to do w/ standard on LMDE.
than plasma.
My prediction is that if I would compare the two, when I would boot the kde desktop
instead of cinnamon, I would have a lot more kde-related stuff with standard.
That being said, I don't recall the cinnamon menu being cluttered w/ kde stuff, so maybe
somehow that is being avoided differently than it was years ago when I did a 'dual' Gnome-
KDE exam.
I'd do standard. I may whip up a vm or such an try. I'm not messing
with this system.
Well, a few days ago I loaded Feren OS. It's an interesting KDE DE on
the surface. Similar settings app like others. It's the updates,
update manager, and file manager that threw me. Feren uses the same
synaptic and update manager that Mint uses. Same front end to apt.
Alan K. wrote:
Well, a few days ago I loaded Feren OS. It's an interesting KDE DE
on the surface. Similar settings app like others. It's the
updates, update manager, and file manager that threw me. Feren
uses the same synaptic and update manager that Mint uses. Same
front end to apt.
I am trying it now and it does not look very impressive. Also I
can't find "Kalarm" in the repo and I use that app daily.
Prior to November 2020, the distribution was based on Linux Mint and
included an edition with the Cinnamon desktop.
Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
Alan K. wrote:
Well, a few days ago I loaded Feren OS. It's an interesting KDE DE
on the surface. Similar settings app like others. It's the
updates, update manager, and file manager that threw me. Feren
uses the same synaptic and update manager that Mint uses. Same
front end to apt.
I am trying it now and it does not look very impressive. Also I
can't find "Kalarm" in the repo and I use that app daily.
Kalarm for Ub distro/s is in the Ub universe repo. If that repo isn't enabled, you won't see it.
I try a lot of live distro/s and I like various KDEs, but I've never
tried Feren. I'm reading an interesting bit in the DW entry for it:
Prior to November 2020, the distribution was based on Linux Mint and
included an edition with the Cinnamon desktop.
LM last KDE release was in '17.
Now I'm kinda curious what Feren has done w/ their KDE.
Now I'm kinda curious what Feren has done w/ their KDE.
I can't find "Kalarm" in the repo--
I like the minor twist with update-manager but some of the display stuff
is not what I call pure KDE.
In Mint cinnamon I have a hand tweaked theme I like. It's useless for
KDE except Feren. When you set the 'applications' theme, whatever you
pick, you can go in and specify the GTK theme. From that drop down I
can pick my Mint theme since it has a gtk2 3 &4 folders. (kinda covers
the bases). And sure enough my entire applications are themed just like
Mint Cinnamon does. Love it.
Only side effect is, if I want to learn how to theme KDE, this feature
IIRC is not there, making my education a bit lame. I like KDE in some
ways and wanted to get into themes.
I like KDE but it has become bloatware and has waaay too many options
which slows it down.
Some KDEs are about equal in resource usage to XFCE and much lower than
say Cinnamon or Gnome.