so here's the thing with KDE Neon, it's really not intended as anything other than a KDE Software testing environment, and the single maintainer of it has admitted as much in a conference this year.
@@DSTechMedia YTers and bloggers haven't helped with the "KDE has their own distro" media hype. Been using KDE plasma for a while now (7 years or so) as my main guiDT env on Debian, but I only install sddm and plasma and then strip down from there. Having every bell and whistle the KDE ad board could imaginate for a "demo distro" sounds like a nightmare indeed. Open a vm and give plasma a try with a minimal recipe. I have a naked version vlogged. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but its simple and stable.
The G-nome users are going to hate how you call gnome that, lol. Prefer KDE myself also (though been trying out Cinnamon on mint for a little bit now), will eventually get back to it, or maybe after redoing my i3wm config...again lol.
: ) THANKS MUCH as your explanations help me realize WHY some distros KILL my keyboard : WAYLAND Vs X ? OMG! LOVE KDE, BUT lost cube etc, and Plasma 6 is in my searching. ALL the BEST and Cheers ! : )
I knew I would get these for saying it that way. But even if I called it Guh-nome I'll get people saying it's silent-G nome. The best is people who want to argue over the name of you-bunt-too, or Ew-Boon-Too.
Someone else mentioned that Neon is a testing/beta distro, but I always thought it was just a bleeding edge official distro. I thought of it kind of like Fedora.
I agree, KDE is the most advanced Linux DE and looks way more modern. It equal Windows. Gnome distros that I have tried over the years are imo, quite primitive and too simplistic. I install Kubuntu 24.04 on a few machines friends and with a proper theme, it looks awesome. I am testing Kubuntu 24.11 and Manjaro KDE plasma 6 also. It is going to be a lot better but it is too unstable right now, especially with Wayland, to make it my main working OS. It is coming there fast, especially with Manjaro.
@@Junky1425 Yes you are right, it's 24.10. I corrected it. Btw I cannot install any plasma 6 global themes in 24.10. Can you ? The same themes works perfectly in the Kde Manjaro plasma 6 (6.1).
It's Guh-nome, not Gee-nome😉 Double click is bloat and I prefer Xfce anyway. KDE is to bloated. KDE is very customizable yes, but you can't place the aps indicator on the bottom. I don't like them on top. And still no fully transparent taskbar option. You need a widget for it.
Wait, what do you mean you can't place it on the bottom? The entire panel can be on any side of the screen, or even split into two different panels. The transparency i would think could be solved with a theme, but I haven't tried it yet.
@DSTechMedia that's not what I meant. On top of an app like for instance Firefox or Dolphin on the taskbar there is a horizontal line. That line you can't place on the bottom. With Dock like plugin on MX panel, you can place it on top, side and on the bottom.
I would disagree about the look, but I can agree that there are some drawbacks. I am a Gnome 3 user for a long time, and I find the default look and layout of it are terrible. But there's also so many things about it that I prefer.
KDE's light enough for anything remotely powerful. It runs fine on a T420 circa 2011, for example. Going for a lighter weight DE gains nothing significant unless you have really underpowered hardware.
@@МаксимСоколов-д4я Oddly enough, I liked KDE 1 and ran it for a while. KDE's 2 thru 4 I disliked so bad I'd written KDE off. Only last year or so I had another look at KDE, now a later version of 5, and was pleasantly surprised. Now I run it exclusively unless I want a gui in a vm, and then run xfce of lx, but that's rare these days.
so here's the thing with KDE Neon, it's really not intended as anything other than a KDE Software testing environment, and the single maintainer of it has admitted as much in a conference this year.
Wow I wish I had known that.
@@DSTechMedia YTers and bloggers haven't helped with the "KDE has their own distro" media hype. Been using KDE plasma for a while now (7 years or so) as my main guiDT env on Debian, but I only install sddm and plasma and then strip down from there. Having every bell and whistle the KDE ad board could imaginate for a "demo distro" sounds like a nightmare indeed. Open a vm and give plasma a try with a minimal recipe. I have a naked version vlogged. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but its simple and stable.
what a flex talk about a girlfriend and linux on the same sentence.
🤣
I installed Linux on my girlfriend's laptop. Tada ! And it's true. Her laptop works far better ahahah.
Not just that, but the same sentence ALSO references spending time outdoors.
I didn't know you can't do those things. I also play guitar, shoot guns, and ride motorcycles.
The G-nome users are going to hate how you call gnome that, lol.
Prefer KDE myself also (though been trying out Cinnamon on mint for a little bit now), will eventually get back to it, or maybe after redoing my i3wm config...again lol.
: ) THANKS MUCH as your explanations help me realize WHY some distros KILL my keyboard : WAYLAND Vs X ? OMG! LOVE KDE, BUT lost cube etc, and Plasma 6 is in my searching. ALL the BEST and Cheers ! : )
Compiz, oh good old days
It's not easy being a Gee nome user these days
I knew I would get these for saying it that way.
But even if I called it Guh-nome I'll get people saying it's silent-G nome.
The best is people who want to argue over the name of you-bunt-too, or Ew-Boon-Too.
whooooohooooooooooooo ! :D
The best kde experience you will get is in Arch, fedora or opensuse tumbleweed and not in kde neon
Someone else mentioned that Neon is a testing/beta distro, but I always thought it was just a bleeding edge official distro.
I thought of it kind of like Fedora.
I have to try it... it looks so good
Missing auto tiling for me to use it. But i prefer kde over gnome. But i still use gnome for that exact reson.
Auto tiling like the way PopOS does it? I like how they do it because it's always there if you want it.
there's a krohnkite fork for plasma 6 that works just fine
I agree, KDE is the most advanced Linux DE and looks way more modern. It equal Windows. Gnome distros that I have tried over the years are imo, quite primitive and too simplistic. I install Kubuntu 24.04 on a few machines friends and with a proper theme, it looks awesome. I am testing Kubuntu 24.11 and Manjaro KDE plasma 6 also. It is going to be a lot better but it is too unstable right now, especially with Wayland, to make it my main working OS. It is coming there fast, especially with Manjaro.
You mean Kubuntu 24.10, because it is already out and works really stable for me, but didn't had so much time on it
KDE looks better than Windows out of the box.
@@Junky1425 Yes you are right, it's 24.10. I corrected it. Btw I cannot install any plasma 6 global themes in 24.10. Can you ? The same themes works perfectly in the Kde Manjaro plasma 6 (6.1).
For an obscure reason youtube refuse to take the correction. ????
@@armagedon515 I never did that on any KDE env where i work on, which global theme did you try so i can also try it
It's Guh-nome, not Gee-nome😉 Double click is bloat and I prefer Xfce anyway. KDE is to bloated. KDE is very customizable yes, but you can't place the aps indicator on the bottom. I don't like them on top. And still no fully transparent taskbar option. You need a widget for it.
the options you're asking for are bloat
Wait, what do you mean you can't place it on the bottom? The entire panel can be on any side of the screen, or even split into two different panels.
The transparency i would think could be solved with a theme, but I haven't tried it yet.
@DSTechMedia that's not what I meant. On top of an app like for instance Firefox or Dolphin on the taskbar there is a horizontal line. That line you can't place on the bottom. With Dock like plugin on MX panel, you can place it on top, side and on the bottom.
I cannot stand the look and feel of KDE. It looks like it was designed for elementary school kids and the functionality is clunky and annoying.
I would disagree about the look, but I can agree that there are some drawbacks. I am a Gnome 3 user for a long time, and I find the default look and layout of it are terrible. But there's also so many things about it that I prefer.
Bloated crap!
KDE's light enough for anything remotely powerful. It runs fine on a T420 circa 2011, for example. Going for a lighter weight DE gains nothing significant unless you have really underpowered hardware.
@@Chalisque KDE 3 was the last useful version. After that, KDE developers went nuts.
@@МаксимСоколов-д4я Oddly enough, I liked KDE 1 and ran it for a while. KDE's 2 thru 4 I disliked so bad I'd written KDE off. Only last year or so I had another look at KDE, now a later version of 5, and was pleasantly surprised. Now I run it exclusively unless I want a gui in a vm, and then run xfce of lx, but that's rare these days.
You can always stick with your terminal and do admin work only.
@@МаксимСоколов-д4я spoken like a true jank enthusiast
if it was so good, why did nobody fork the DE and maintain it, ala MATE?