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Plasma 6.4: IMO, THE BEST Linux desktop environment right now (videos.abnormalbeings.space)
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Agree. Set my wife up on EndeavorOS on her laptop, and every time I go in to do something I'm impressed.

I'm a tiling, terminal, minimal mouse guy, so it isn't for me, but what I've seen of KDE it's leaps and bounds better than Gnome. Some of the minimal DEs are good if you want lightweight; Cinnamon (or whatever Gnome-on-GTK3 is called) is good, and better than current Gnome, but not in the same league as KDE.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I quite like KDE whenever I've used it. But I've broken so many systems by fucking around a bit too much. So I'm on Pop OS which uses a themed Gnome DE. I keep hearing it's easy to install different a different DE, but how do you do it safely and still keep compatibility with your distros updates?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

PopOS is Ubuntu LTS so it's only getting ancient KDE Plasma and no, not worth it.

Aside, yes it’s fairly easy, but you might need to change couple of settings regarding theming and then roll back to defaults to un-fuck some desktop theming.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

But I've broken so many systems by fucking around a bit too much.

If only there were things such as KDE based distros and Atomic ones.... (Also what does this have to do with KDE)

but how do you do it safely

Sudo apt install plasma plasma-utils.

and still keep compatibility with your distros updates?

Sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Atomic distros require patience that many newbies don't have. The learning curve is not what many expect when they hear about it.

Source: Too many friends with broken atomics because they 'thought it was safer'

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

How?

I used Fedora and bazzite for a while now and nothing ever happened.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm not too much of a newbie either. My home server is nixos, it's just not a paradigm I want for my daily use computer :P

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Are you serious? You're running nixos but don't know how to change ones DE? You're definitely not a newbie, but your path of development is certainly interesting lol I blame the llms for all these foundationless positions (am just being old tho)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I mean I've been using Linux for over 15 years. Sure, last time I tried having multiple (and uninstalling) multiple DEs on one machine was probably 10 or so years ago, it just left me with a bad taste in my mouth so I stopped doing it.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This was posted 16 minutes ago. Is it still the best DE? Or did I miss it?

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

Plasma 6.4 will automatically become the best DE whenever you read the title, but ceases to be so, whenever your eyes look at something different. It's the "quantum clickbait"-law of video (and news) titles. So, for the sake of quality assurance, please continue to read the title indefinitely, thank you.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Love this! 🤣

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Never understood KDE maxis

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