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I was watching this youtube video [0] about KDE neon and loved the customizations that the person had made. I tried out a KDE distro in a VM and made the requir

I was watching this youtube video [0] about KDE neon and loved the customizations that the person had made. I tried out a KDE distro in a VM and made the required changes : use an app icon based task manager, set 4 virtual desktops over 2 rows and set the same desktop wallpaper shown in the video [1] and it looks incredible. It's been at least 4 years since I last used KDE and was blown away by how stable and lightweight it has become (I hear it uses less resources than even Gnome). And there's also the infinite customization options and it looks good out of the box. Now I'm considering switching to Fedora KDE as my daily driver. For people who use Fedora KDE as their daily driver : what's your experience with this distro? Anything that people new to this Fedora spin need to be aware of? Any thoughts on the security track record of Fedora KDE? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-OEl6b9N4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-OEl6b9N4 [1] https://i.imgur.com/w439mEw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/w439mEw.jpg

hd4 9y ago
>what's your experience with this distro Rock solid, fast, no graphical glitching (Intel GPU), sane default app choices (except why have Dragon Player instead of mpv), excellent installer, no, scratch that, the best installer, dnf is nice and has delta based updates which I never had with Ubuntu, no unnecessary bloat, in fact the resource usage is on par with Ubuntu 16.04. Only issue I've had is that f2fs isn't working normally but this also affects other distros with a similar kernel/userland. Otherwise it's been a net gain. I switched to Fedora KDE for my main machine purely because of the Unity announcement, no intention to use the GNOME garbage, even though I will keep using Ubuntu 16.04 on other machines as long as the support continues until a few years.
SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago
I used the Fedora KDE "spin" for years and it's really fantastic. In fact I'm still running it on my previous laptop which I keep around at home for odd jobs and occasionally use for work when I can't be bothered to dig my new laptop out of my bag. The new machine has a 4K screen and as with many people I'm occasionally hooked up to 1080P external monitors. I found that Gnome handled mixed DPI setups slightly better so I'm using that these days but KDE is very polished and well worth a try. Once KDE sort out the mixed DPI situation I may even switch back.
- jhoechtl 9y ago
  > I found that Gnome handled mixed DPI setups slightly better Came here just to second this. This is especially true when using Wayland. Gnome is better here, especially if you have the luxury to * enable experimental fractional scaling of Gnome 3.26; * restrict yourself to properly ported GTK3-Applications. The situation with other applications is not as bright. While eg. Libreoffice looks good at first sight (crisp fonts under Wayland and fractional scaling enabled), Dialog boxes are not resizable and become unusable, as important information is missing.

hd4 9y ago

>what's your experience with this distro Rock solid, fast, no graphical glitching (Intel GPU), sane default app choices (except why have Dragon Player instead of mpv), excellent installer, no, scratch that, the best installer, dnf is nice and has delta based updates which I never had with Ubuntu, no unnecessary bloat, in fact the resource usage is on par with Ubuntu 16.04. Only issue I've had is that f2fs isn't working normally but this also affects other distros with a similar kernel/userland. Otherwise it's been a net gain. I switched to Fedora KDE for my main machine purely because of the Unity announcement, no intention to use the GNOME garbage, even though I will keep using Ubuntu 16.04 on other machines as long as the support continues until a few years.

SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago

I used the Fedora KDE "spin" for years and it's really fantastic. In fact I'm still running it on my previous laptop which I keep around at home for odd jobs and occasionally use for work when I can't be bothered to dig my new laptop out of my bag. The new machine has a 4K screen and as with many people I'm occasionally hooked up to 1080P external monitors. I found that Gnome handled mixed DPI setups slightly better so I'm using that these days but KDE is very polished and well worth a try. Once KDE sort out the mixed DPI situation I may even switch back.

jhoechtl 9y ago
> I found that Gnome handled mixed DPI setups slightly better Came here just to second this. This is especially true when using Wayland. Gnome is better here, especially if you have the luxury to * enable experimental fractional scaling of Gnome 3.26; * restrict yourself to properly ported GTK3-Applications. The situation with other applications is not as bright. While eg. Libreoffice looks good at first sight (crisp fonts under Wayland and fractional scaling enabled), Dialog boxes are not resizable and become unusable, as important information is missing.