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After testing LM with Cinnamon, and a ubuntu based distribution with KDE… KDE is just better.
this. im so sick of everyone just telling new people to get mint. cinnamon isnt the best choice for every new person. i hate that its just told to every new person, point blank.
What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven't explored KDE much.
The interface looks more recent. Also I can use Wayland, as X11 can be a pain with scaling or specific setups
Apart from that, there are good default apps (although you can download KDE's stuff anyways), KDE is pretty transparent as an organization. Things like notifications are more sexy than cinnamon. Built in options like Win+P showing screen display works just like windows
Good animations, a good range of default widgets and taskbar config for my needs (it’s pretty limited imo but it’s enough for me)
Terminal is great but I got some problems like .sh scripts not showing a window but just running in background when double clicked. Apart from that, Kate (default editor), Konsole (terminal) are well built
They also have built in support for Nextcloud sync icons in the file browser, which is nice
I prefer the update manager of Mint but no big deal (can’t update only one package in KDE's GUI)
Things like managing battery and connecting to Bluetooth devices is beautiful. Everything feels premium, fast, sleek.
Is it KDE Neon? I've been curious if it's any good, haven't tried. It's just Ubuntu LTS with Plasma.
It isn’t! I used TuxedoOS.
The main reason was that I have a tuxedo laptop, but they also adopted the same moves as mint: mirrored Ubuntu’s repos for privacy, and disabled snap by default. Also, moved ping/internet connectivity check to their own server.
I do believe the packages are a bit outdated but same problem on Mint
I think KDE Neon is more up to date with the packages but still use the default servers, so Canonical gets some of your pings
Btw tuxedo should work just fine on a non-tuxedo device. The custom optimizations should stay disabled
Also, as others have talked about it, it’s not bleeding edge KDE but stable KDE, but it’s a recent version so the desktop environment feels modern
Sorry for the slow response, I was busy
Oh cool! I had completely forgotten about the Tuxedo devices. No worries on the slow reply, I've got three month old comments in my inbox that I swear I'll get around to crafting a respectable reply to any day now, I swear 😅
kde neon is their testbed I believe, but there are other distros shipping it too.
opensuse leap and thumbleweed defaults to installing kde plasma. leap is the slower moving version, thumbleweed is the bleeding edge rolling release distro, if you want to try it.
fedora has a kde edition, that too seems to be stable, maybe its more polished too
Neon is great, but don't use it for mission critical stuff. I've had updates brick my system before because it's bleeding edge for KDE.