I recently installed KDE Plasma to my Debian system after using Gnome my entire life. I still quite enjoy gnome, but I think that its workflow is better suited to a mobile system like my laptop.
Using Plasma on my desktop system has been revolutionary - there is a stupid amount of functionality in here. In particular, widgets, themes, and activities are just so well implemented for the most part - I really feel like I can tailor the GUI to my needs and wants, and I think this is an enormous part of what is making Linux a truly modern OS when compared to proprietary alternatives.
The more I tweak things, the more the system feels truly like MY system - something that I don’t think I could make work with proprietary software.
I was not a big fan of the splash screen until I found out that, of course, it can be disabled or customized as well - so now I find myself making vector graphics to customize that as well haha.
My only real regret is that having been on Gnome originally, some Gnome stuff can get in the way (though I do still kind of like using GDM instead of SDDM). Whenever I should do some big update/upgrade I am for sure installing plasma from the get go.
As someone who is new to KDE overall, and particularly with a system that has Gnome still partially installed, if there is anything I should know, I would appreciate it. Furthermore if anyone has any favorite widgets and whatnot, I would love to hear about them as well.
Thank you
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Oh come on. He’s just stating his preference.
No problem with stating your preferences. Well-reasoned, respectful, compassionate and well-researched criticism is also okay.
It’s a warning for the rest of you. People who start banging on how they hate X, Y or Z or how P, Q, and R sucks will have their comments removed. Sorry.
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Alright dude. If that’s the way you think it should be. I think your tone is off, not the other way round.
Sorry.
The tone is that of a… er… dude who has to moderate this and 4 other forums day in and day out, while few people bother to read the sidebar to learn what the rules are and then complain when their stuff gets erased 🤷 .
@Thaurin @Bro666
Hm… 🤔
Does this mean that people should be allowed to state their “preferences” about politics on any forums? 🗯️
Because that’s totally same thing as a desktop environment?
@Thaurin
No, it obviously isn’t… or this is how it seems. But for some (fiery) people, their opinion on everything (doesn’t really matter what) has a tremendous importance, and it 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 be made clear to the others🥊
This is a KDE community. I would expect discussing desktop environments would be on topic here, including comparing them to others. Starting a political discussion here would be off topic.
@Thaurin @Bro666 🤷♀️ I think it is nice and fair of bro666 giving this kind of warning here. 🖖
Was recently suspended by a mod from the kde forums for being probl. a spambot by linking to an external Amiga Demoscene Site in a conversation…
@Tionisla @Thaurin @Bro666
Tionisla I remember you getting reported for that post. That link looked weirdly out of context but I don’t think you are a spambot.
I have unsuspended you.
@duha @Thaurin @Bro666 nice, thanks duha for unsuspending.🖖
Hmmh, I’ll keep it personally dormant for the time being, tho until I make up my mind if I really want to participate in the forums again. In the end being reported and getting suspended was a highly demotivating experience.
I 'll be here on the :runbsd: BSD side of the fediverse, enjoying oldskool Demoscene stuff, and will post about my experiences with daily driving kde plasma on FreeBSD.
Anyway, thanks for the effort, and sorry about the hassle. Keep up the good work.👍