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Mint is an excellent Distro. If you are happy with Mint, by all means, stick with it. I will keep posting videos on my favorite KDE features. If you see something that really makes you want to try KDE, I recommend grabbing a faster drive next time they are on sale and try a KDE distro on that. If it doesn't work for you, you can use Clonezilla or other tool to clone your existing Mint to the new drive and have a faster system. That said, you found a Distro that works for you and runs great on your hardware so you are already winning!

I was simply comparing the default out of the box text editors in KDE vs Windows and making the argument that out of the box you get a much more capable text editor in KDE. All of your points are good ones though.

This is nice to hear. Please let me how Kate works out for you both pros and cons. I haven't run Windows in a long time, but am very interested in how it performs on Windows as well as how it compares to Notepad++.

That is a more equal comparison, but VS Code is not the default text editor in Windows 11. This was a comparison of the default text editor in Windows vs Kubuntu. VS Code and the open source fork VS Codium are platform agnostic. So if I were going to compare VS Code, I would compare VS Code on Linux vs VS Code on Windows. I might do a VS Code vs Kate comparison in the future though as that would be a fun comparison. Especially since Kate is using native widgets on KDE and VS Code uses electron.

A more comparable app is Notepad++. Super lightweight and feature rich. Especially if Notepad++ is chosen as the default app instead of Notepad.exe

Yes, Notepad++ blows notepad out of the water, but I was comparing the default (out of the box) text editors in Kubuntu vs Windows. If I were comparing Linux Mint (Xed) or the default text editor in Ubuntu (GNOME text editor) to notepad it would be a much closer comparison as well.

Good point. In version 1.3+ you can set the color for each track. LMMS is a very basic. For real audio production I use Bitwig, but Reason is fantastic too.

Thank you for the kind support. This video is pretty rough and unedited. I was going to pull it and put together a better example. I really wish YT allowed replacing videos or had some kind of versioning. It would be nice to be able to post a rough cut, clean it up later and retain the comments.

Thank you and you are absolutely correct. Kate handles everything, Notepad not so much.

Thanks, The logo was created in Inkscape and then animated with friction which is an awesome 2d vector animation tool. I should probably make a video about it.

Thank you

LOL, I added markers and added one for the music drop :)

Windows is supposed to be easier to use right? So it should be intuitive right? For me the way the built in KDE tile manager works just makes sense and is intuitive. The built in Windows tile manager can't even display content while resizing and completely breaks if you switch layouts. I would be happy to make a more fair comparison if there is something I was doing wrong in Windows. I haven't used Windows in 15 years and will never go back, but do want to be as fair and unbiased as possible. That said, this is a pro Linux and specifically pro KDE channel.

Hyperland is great, but this is a comparison between the built in tiling in Windows 11 vs KDE. Out of the box, KDE comes with a much better tiling manager than Windows 11 in my opinion.

I completely agree. KDE is my favorite desktop for many of the reasons you mentioned. Another reason I love it is the ability to connect to remote servers over ssh via fish:// in dolphin and view and filter remote file systems with thumbnails. Nothing else compares. I also like the way it is simple by default, but has a ton of advanced features under the hood.

Yes, I did. I have been trying to keep things simple for noobs, but should have put that in there. As well as ps -Al | grep chrome, kill -9 pid etc. I really wish UA-cam would let you replace videos or at least add to them. I guess I could make a new video with terminal process related commands and link to it from the first one.

It should already be enabled. You just have to hit [Meta]+T. By default [Meta] should be your Windows key. If that doesn't work then go to System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects, and enable "Tiling Editor". After hitting [Meta]+T and designating the tile regions just drag a window and hold [shift] to drop it on one of the tile regions.

@@nixnoob that worked, thank you

@@nixnoob Most people just call the meta key (windows key) the super key on Linux btw

@@coolluckyme2007 My pleasure, glad I was able to help.

you are joking right? laughing so hard.

Correct, there is no comparison. One is slow spyware that you rent. The other is a fast secure OS that you own.

I have mixed feelings about the ads. I should probably just use Brave or another browser that helps maintain anonymity and blocks ads. In chrome, any extension you install can collect data, so I try to keep the extensions to a minimum which includes ad blockers. For the most part the ads do not bother me and they are the reason a lot of stuff is free. I would rather have free content and ads then have everything behind paywalls. That said, I do wish they were more helpful. When I buy a mattress, I do not need to see ads for the mattress I just bought. Maybe sheets and comforters, but for all the tracking and AI they still haven't figured this out. :(

​@@nixnoob I don't have mixed feelings if there are ads they get blocked.. paywalls don't get views.. Everything i use is free and open source.. have no issues. But, I was referring to content creation... better to keep videos clean and don't sponsor people and products you aren't paid for. Most of my ads are blocked by the router and don't collect anything... Either way brave's adblocking is built in, not 3rd party and does not collect any data assuming you dont opt-in....

@@nixnoob With that said... I am a paid Patreon for a couple Linux related channels i really liked... its not about the money... its about annoying me... i don't like to be annoyed... ads annoy me... LOL ads can also be malicious. I am always looking for new linux content. I hope yours will do well

Thank you, I hope my channel does well also. I will be sure to block ads in future videos and welcome any other suggestions you might have.

I am just using the built in transparency in KDE. It can behave a little different if you are using X11 or Wayland. In this video I was using Wayland. If you do not know what that is let me know and I can clarify. Basically, I just went into the desktop effects, enabled transparency and set inactive windows to be semi-transparent. I have seen people mention that you have to have desktop contrast and blur turned off for it to work in Wayland, but I do have blur turned on at the first or second tick. I can make a video about it if that would be helpful.

By learning OS are you referring to learning Linux itself as opposed to the KDE desktop? If so, I would be happy too. Is there anything in particular that you would like to see? Most common commands, File structure, File permissions, Users and groups etc.

Thank you, Glad you liked it!

Agree!

I love hearing stories like this. You have a newish machine with a new OS and helped the environment in the process. It is always tough learning something new, but you are learning something better. There is a reason 100% of super computers and 96.4% of internet servers run Linux. If there is anything I can do to help let me know. I am always looking for new content ideas. I have been using Linux so long that I forget what was hard to learn in the beginning.

xkill will kill the main process and child processes for the window you click on. I forgot to mention killall which you use by typing killall and then the program name. Ex. killall chrome which will kill all processes for chrome.