Comments on: Using KDE

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:48:56 +0000

I agree. The thing is, KDE’s configuration is usually more straight forward than for other DEs, in my opinion. Has there ever been a “tweak took” you have to install and learn to use in KDE? I never saw one.

I’ve leaned in the past towards Gnome 2.0 style DEs because they were closer to what I wanted out of the box, and to things like Gnome 2.0 or XFCE because they use fewer resources. But as noted, KDE has continued to become more and more efficient, while other distros like Mate have gone off the rails and become buggy and apparently bloated.

I dont’ want to diss Cinnamon, though. I’m probably going to instal Cinnamon on my laptop next upgrade, which is coming soon.

By: Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:24:10 +0000

I’ve always been a KDE user right from the start (2005). Of course I’ve tried other desktops. I always load xfce when I do a new install as a back up. Sometimes I even use it. It is faster and in a way, cleaner looking but on my fairly recent computer build everything is faster. I’ve never understood the problem people have with KDE. You just configure it to the way you like a desktop. Problem solved. That’s the strength of KDE. You can configure it any way you want. I think the problem people have is that they don’t want to learn how to configure KDE. That’s too bad. That’s not to say KDE has not had its problems. It seems to get flakey around major version changes like when it went from 3.9 to 4.0 and again from 4.9 to 5.0 or whatever the exact version numbers were. I remember switching to xfce for about a year until KDE got its act together. I switched from 4.x to 5.x about a year ago. I held off switching as long as possible. I’ve had no major problems with it. And you’re right it is pretty light on its feet. I don’t know how they did it when the trend seems to be more bloated code.

By: Gregory Laden

Gregory Laden — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:29:44 +0000

I might try cinnamon on my laptop.

I think the term “plasma” refers to the current desktop version, like how Ubuntu uses animal names.

You are probably thinking of “activities”. I do not understand them. I don’t use them. Someday maybe I’ll figure them out. They are safely ignoted, tho.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:04:02 +0000

I had KDE on a laptop and I found things like “plasmas” confusing and counterintuitive. Has that improved?

I chose Mint With Cinnamon rather than MATE for a desktop and I find it really easy to use and configure.